The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.