I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

The formula is the star. I couldn’t work inside that formula.

If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn’t have...

It might be arrogant to think that we’re the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn’t know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it...

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

The fact that it’s science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

It’s hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there’s another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn’s disease.

On network TV, I’m still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.

I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn’t have something to it.

I’m not a sedentary person. I’ve always been active.

Yeah, I think the common denominator – and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 – but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week...

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

I’ve done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how...

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like...

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

It’s no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

I wouldn’t say necessarily that my life is as normal as the guy next door. There’s a lot that goes along with being in the spotlight.

Of course education becomes very very important and that’s for our human resource development.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

I was raised to pretend.

When my career first began, I didn’t have children – so there’s a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I’m going...

I think it’s a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re my biggest fan!’

I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

I don’t consider myself a sex symbol.

I think I’ve always been good so God wouldn’t strike me dead.

When I’m on tour, I’m in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being...

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.

I’m a horror movie fanatic.

I thought maybe he would like me to do WILSON, and he was hoping that I wouldn’t. It was several days before we came to an open understanding.

I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

I hope to just find more great roles.

I still picture myself as that 23-year-old girl who walked in here, had never been on TV before; and managed somehow to get through the first day.