o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.

Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different.

See the opportunity in the misstep.

Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.