Eartha Kitt

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.