If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?

I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

You're nothing to me until you're everything.

I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.