“As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.”

“I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.”

“American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.”

“The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.”

“It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.”

“Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.”

“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”

“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.”

“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.”