It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!