I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."

"A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."

"I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work . . . a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."

"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons, and eating only the top half of each one."