Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.