I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.