One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

For every ten vampires who are happy being monsters, there's always one sad-sack who misses the sunrise.

Being happyis not a privilege—it is somethingeveryone deserves.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?