When you’re Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

Through my films, public appearances and even a couple of books, I’ve had the opportunities to share what I was learning along the way.

I’m looking forward to working with some of the best cast and crew there are.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I’ve just done.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

And it’s sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it’s very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There’s very little about the personal lives of the characters.

I didn’t think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be...

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

I love being someone I’m not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else’s skin.

I love playing strong women, even if they’re nuts.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

It’s not always thankless. Let’s face it – it’s not always thankless. I’ve gotten a lot of really great recognition and I’ve worked with amazing people.

It’s not the networks, it’s the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.

Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that...

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she’s not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact...

I don’t go to McDonald’s anymore. After I saw Super Size Me… no way!

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

When I first saw myself in American Pie, I cringed. I hate the way I look here, the way I sound there, but that’s because I’m my own worst critic.

I’m always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I’m the most skeptical. You know, I’m very proud of what we’ve done, and I don’t want to screw up our series.

I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.

The woman’s vision is deep reaching, the man’s far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

I was really involved with other people’s opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don’t have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It’s not the way...

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it’s gonna be better for you. But I honestly don’t know that.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you’re stupid.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what’s happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that...

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when...

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone’s uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

Though I’m not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

How can you beat someone that’s already lost everything?

I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we’d go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot,...

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director’s chair.

I’m more aware of time. The element of time.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

I’m not so widely known that I’m going to be pigeonholed.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself… but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter’s unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

Nobody’s got it made. Nobody, no matter what they look like.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn’t feel dressed without them.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

Well, I’m a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

I have no affectation when I speak.