I had an obsession with underarm shields – pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones. – Dawn Steel
I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn’t realize for the longest time I was intimidating. – Dawn Steel
I have to tell you, I’m a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren’t very good. – Dawn Steel
I think women’s relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn’t necessarily trust women for a long time. – Dawn Steel
We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too. – Dawn Steel
You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect. – Dawn Steel
What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her – with the hardest possible children to convert. – Dawn Steel
I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I’m a very straightforward person. – Dawn Steel
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. – Dawn Steel
The first war movie I ever saw was ‘Platoon,’ and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn’t sure I’d make it. – Dawn Steel
I’ve gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they’ll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don’t. – Dawn Steel
I’d like my epitaph to read ‘Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.’ Also that I’m a nice person… and a good mother. – Dawn Steel
I think exciting sexuality is part of the fantasy, part of the entertainment of a love story. – Dawn Steel
In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren’t educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a ‘Reader’s Digest’ condensed book. Can you imagine? – Dawn Steel
I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after ‘Taps’ in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was. – Dawn Steel
I don’t know that I would say abrasive. In some ways, I was curt because there’s an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day, and maybe I was insensitive considering the pressures and responsibilities of these jobs. – Dawn Steel
I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it’s the success of ‘Cool Runnings,’ which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it’s my success, just as a human being. – Dawn Steel