Because of my two films - one was about my half-sister (Kati with an I) and the next one featured my cousin (Fake It So Real) - I was hesitant to sta….

If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impres….

Being the free woman who is sexy and out there is a performance in a way, and being the stay-at-home mom and wife is a performance in itself. All of ….

Expand your notion of what adversity is..

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention..

One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen differently in a theatrical space. I….

When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit th….

Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisiti….

If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to b….

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurit….

If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something….

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself..

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies..

Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both….

I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience y….

When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to thin….

I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experie….

You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are pr….

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all ou….

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it..

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to mono….