I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness.

Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.