Quote of the Day (Sigourney Weaver, on Her Spur to Success)

“Having arrived at Yale [School of Drama] feeling I could do anything, I was told I had no talent and should leave. I went to the school psychiatrist, but I had to pay after five sessions and didn’t feel like I could ask my parents to pay more money to send me to a school that didn’t want me. So I just sort of had a quiet nervous breakdown. But if the school had been more encouraging, I don’t know if I would have stayed in acting. When they told me I couldn’t be an actor, then I had to be a successful actor.”—Sigourney Weaver, quoted in Amy Wallace, “A Stand-Up Woman: 10 Questions for Sigourney Weaver,” Reader’s Digest, October 2010