Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it’s very important.

If we’re for one another, we’re feminists. The rest is semantics.

I’d always been treated like an object, not like a human.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I’m getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

You know when you watch old movies, it’s always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the ’50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I’ve always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with...

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

No matter where I’ve been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

You can’t keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

The truth is, after Boys Don’t Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must,...

My children didn’t when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort...

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

There was no place at all for me in my father’s military world.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that’s how it was in those days.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven’s wonderful.

West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

I didn’t want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

I’ve managed to keep my clothes on for everything I’ve done so far.

That’s where I got my start and where I’ll continue to work, but I can’t tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn’t...

Only a few things are really important.

But I’m not objective when I’m acting.

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.

We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I’m coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren’t working I would just sit on those folding chairs.

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a...

I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

It’s not that I don’t see myself as hot and sexy. Don’t get me wrong. No, it’s not that.

Network heads don’t seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There...

Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.

In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The book club. Theater. Having conversations.

We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there’s plenty of time for me to spend with...

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don’t want to be an old hag. There’s no fun in that.

There’s a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I’m sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing...

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.

There are two reasons why I’m in show business, and I’m standing on both of them.

I’m very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

When you are coming out, you say it’s for you. But when everybody says it’s not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.