“I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.”

Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

You’ve probably noticed already that I’m dressed like a grown-up… I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

Everyone’s got to have a dream. It’s not reaching your dream that counts. It’s going toward them.

Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that’s all right because they’re making a total mess of it. We’re chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it’s a difficult task, but it’s not.

There are lots of things that I’d like to be, and nice just doesn’t seem good enough.

It doesn’t always turn out. It’s not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.

Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That’s all I ever wanted – to be good at what I did.

I can trust my friends… these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

My mother once said “If you don’t pay attention to age, then it won’t pay attention to you.” And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don’t buy it.

I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.

You can’t just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

I’ve had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.