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" I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person. "

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" I thought it was great being the only girl in the room. I loved the attention. After I got used to it, I didn't want to be the only girl in the room. I had no one to talk to. "

" I think exciting sexuality is part of the fantasy, part of the entertainment of a love story. "

" Don't believe everything you read in the trades. "

" I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good. "

" Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves. "

" A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you. "

" If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies. "

" I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was. "

" I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being. "

" It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made. "

" It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment. "

" What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert. "

" It's unfathomable how you live without your mother. "

" Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press. "

" I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life. "

" Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured. "

" In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine? "

" I felt more comfortable in TV than in the film world where the players were more erudite and intellectual. "

" I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect. "

" Working together is the quickest road to marital problems. "

Working Together

" The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse. "

" I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry. "

" I don't know that I would say abrasive. In some ways, I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day, and maybe I was insensitive considering the pressures and responsibilities of these jobs. "

" There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood. "

" I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. "

" I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones. "

" We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too. "

" I started with nothing. Less than nothing. "

" I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I'm not proud of it. I certainly don't feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me. "