It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

As an actress, I am happy that people are offering me good roles and I am earning success critically and commercially.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.