When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

During my first few weeks in Hollywood, I was told that Jack Warner, the head of the studio, did not believe that a small-breasted woman could become a star.

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.