Helen Slater Quotes

(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!"

[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'."

(About her character Christy Wills in "Secret of My Success") At first I wanted her to appear more military like, wearing more blue and the like, but then Herb 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.