You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Loved people are loving people.

I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.