"With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting."

"I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness."

"I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it."

"I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism."

"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

"Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience."

"I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England."