No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

Self-love knows no impediment.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

When ever I have a Problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my Problem.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.

Being a single woman is like going off to war.