Only in your imagination can you revise.

I don’t hang out with agents and producers and I’m not into the business side at all.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I’m a little guarded and hardened to that.

I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I’d do it a million times over.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them… to see this happen to our city and our community.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

In my old age I’ve come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they’re attractive.

I never thought I was going to be able to drive. The first time I even went out and started driving, I hit a bus with my driver’s ed coach.

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

Other people’s perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don’t. I like being sexy. It’s fun, and I have had a nice little career...

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

You just have to forgive them for being men.

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I’ll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don’t get it; girls don’t want to see boys kiss.

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don’t eat.

I never say a funny thing intentionally.

There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There’s nothing wrong with an untrained...

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won’t do; it’s all about the roles.

For me, there’s a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

I no longer need to be someone’s wife. I’m doing okay as I am.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

The least consideration of any film I’ve ever worked on is who is right for it.

To know that one has never really tried – that is the only death.

It was sort of that in-between area when people don’t talk about their personal lives. That’s the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren’t for the Lopez character sort...

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you’re doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

And you don’t want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you’re playing with Bob Dylan.

I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room… everywhere.

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It...

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort...

I did, but I’m not real fond of giving interviews.

It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for “Six Feet Under”, last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four...

It’s a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We’re more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I was very happy here with my job in daytime television as Erica Kane. And being able to see my children, and all of that has worked for me.