I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.

We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.