When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn’t working, so after about a year I went back...

I have a funny name.

If you have a guy like Jermaine, it’s a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they...

Because a lot of straight people think I’m nuts.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you’re playing.

You know, it’s not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it’s the people all around the country; it’s word-of-mouth.

I certainly feel more comfortable onstage because I’ve been doing it for seventeen years. But I do feel like it’s my home, when I’m on the screen.

I don’t like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

I was thrilled with the nomination, but I didn’t want to go to the ceremony. I hated the idea of sitting there smiling and not winning.

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we...

The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it’s tomorrow.

I’d like to keep going, to keep exploring. It’s like anything else there’s no way you can reach any kind heights or potential in your first film.

You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They’re kind of lusty, they know what they want, they’re full of conviction. Cain’s women are sexual.

I’m a stranger here. I’m a threat. Definitely. I didn’t realize they were so insecure. It just came to me now, but it true. Very insecure.

But there’s not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There’s too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time...

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

One of the themes of Butterfly is incest. Before now, I don’t think people could deal with the subject. Now that there have been exposes in major magazines and on television shows, and several films,...

A lot of straight people think I’m nuts.

I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

Basically, I’m a romantic.

I’m one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That’s why I’m happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

Film, I think, is my medium.

I’m just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won’t take me because he knows I don’t want to go.

I’m gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it’s better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack...

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn’t really my bag.

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was...

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.