Jackie Collins

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.