I never know how much of what I say is true.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn’t be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother’s prayers had anything to do with me...

When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.

I swear I want to be a food model.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

There’s no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

We share responsibility. It’s important to have a good spouse; that’s where I sympathize with single parents.

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can’t go to the mall.

I don’t go to places where I’m going to get mobbed.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they’re fun, but they wink at the audience and you’re really not terrified through the movie.

He was just trying to tease me-I knew that later-but he said he’d have to leave because it wasn’t fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he...

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn’t care for the medium. It depressed me.

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don’t have that.

Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn’t really...

My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff – like pay the bills, and he...

I get to pretend I’m flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That’s what I do for a living.

Brad is much more of a workout person. He wakes up every morning and does his yoga and can’t go to bed without doing some kind of exercise.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother’s distress.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

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.

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,...

The idea is that they wouldn’t want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So...

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

I can’t change the world. I have to fix me.

I don’t belong to the straights now – they didn’t get me back.

I always got along with all types of people – popular people as well as drug addicts.