Melanie Griffith — American Actress born on August 09, 1957,

Melanie Griffith is an American actress. The daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and former stage actor Peter Griffith, she rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palma's Body Double, which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in Something Wild garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's Working Girl, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe... (wikipedia)

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?
People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?
I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.
Most people are telling me I look horrible.
I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.