“I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would s...” — Dawn Steel Quote

“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 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.”

“An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.”

“My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.”

“I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.”

“Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.”