Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

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

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.