In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.