A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

I have such a big mouth.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

No vice is so bad as advice.

I’m straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

I like to go to openings when I’m in it, or friends are in it.

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you’re probably going to invest in somebody who’s going to deceive you. I’ve been conned a couple of times, but now I’m...

And I’m so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma – a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on...

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it’s such a cult classic. I’d seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

Give me civilization. I don’t want to be pampered.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I...

You know what I would really like to do? I’d like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up....

It’s also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I’m not the only actress out there, and good parts just don’t fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the...

I just have always felt that I think we know that it’s an ensemble show, and it’s very hard to pick a show to submit when you’re nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong...

I don’t like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

I was just glad to be going to work again.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn’t know how...

Goldie is like a neon light and I am not.

I’ve been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called...

Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.

I’m a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that’s the limit of my talents.

It’s been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.

I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, I’ll just try to listen to my friends, and they’ll say the same thing over and over again.

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I’m single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but...

When it’s foggy in the pulpit it’s cloudy in the pew.

You know I’m an actress, not just a funny lady.

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we’d been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared...

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

I’m very involved in the writing on every level.

I don’t condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You’re the reason I became an actress, that lets me know...

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they’d let me down and re-organize things.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

Luck, be a lady tonight.

We don’t need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables – the lettuce, the cucumbers, the...

I’ve had to learn how to use a gun. I was absolutely terrified when I realised it was not a stunt double, it was actually me doing this.

Do what you’re passionate about.

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren’t going right.

Even at al my mother’s concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I’m not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would...