If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

The audience is never wrong.