A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.

A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'