Helen Slater

Helen: (on facing mid-life crisis) I can't speak for all women, but I do think that...I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely...we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know. It's funny because we just bust ourselves! We go to therapy, we eat right, we stay away from caffeine, we try to have loving relationships with our mothers and more communication with our fathers, and still the black abyss will open up!

Helen: (on looking at herself in the home-made Supergirl costume she wore to her audition) I looked at myself in the mirror and I thought, "I look like such a jackass".

Helen: (about her character "Christy Wills" in The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)) At first I wanted her to appear more military-like, wearing more blue and the like, but then Herb [director Herbert Ross] told me to have her display more female qualities, which turned out to be right because we could then see she was more apt to being both an executive and a woman.

Helen: (on her teen years) I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!