If you feel you don't have luck and you don't make an effort, once the luck comes, you won't be able to hold up.''

ACTOR CHRISTOPHER LEE on destiny versus effort

I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blonde, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other. "

FRANCES MCDORMAND on being a character actress

Marble countertops are really important to me. Even when people tell me marble is going to get stained, I don't care. Because when you go to a church in Italy made out of marble and it's stained, is it still beautiful? Yes, it is. ''

COOKBOOK AUTHOR MELISSA CLARK