Lauren Bacall

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

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.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.