There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

I never studied. I was too afraid. I thought that if an acting teacher had said to me, "You know what, you're not good," I would not have gone any further. It was easier for me to justify going to an audition and getting rejected, maybe because they wanted somebody blonde, maybe because I wasn't experienced enough. I could live with that more easily.

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

I’m honored if I can inspire somebody else.

Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters.

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, "Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice."

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.