The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic you can be described as 'one of the faithful ' one of those people who can say 'Well look something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

You should read history and look at ostracism persecution martyrdom and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men you know.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now and I try to make the best of those moments the moments that I'm in.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.