You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

I’ve learned to look like I’m listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I’m actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

I plan to work ever day they’ll let me.

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it’s acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don’t have anything to do with my nose.

Usually it’s the guys that don’t follow you around, who you’re attracted to!

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.

I’m always honest, whether I’m in the limelight or not.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business – otherwise they’re going to spit you out.

But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor’s work from reality.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to ‘The Art of Happiness’ by the Dalai Lama.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn’t rule it out of Mr. Bruce’s act if he cares to comment on it.

When Taylor has to do something bad on the show, which is hardly ever, she always pays for what she does, and that way I am cool with it.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I’m 25 and singing still, I don’t want to be singing music like that.

I have no idea why this decision was made, and I have much regret that the audience that supported us all these years will be shortchanged.

It’s up to each person’s parents whether they think it’s too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

I just imagined I was four miles from help and, well, you’d scream too if you just imagined that situation with that monster up there!

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

Hopefully, I’ll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that’s how it will develop.

Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won’t complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don’t have a problem with it because of the way this character’s been...

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let’s Pretend, it’s often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

I think right now in the world we’re feeling like there’s no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.

An actress, around 40, on television, that’s where you get the most torture, I think.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don’t believe it. But I’m flattered. Truth is, I don’t lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

I think Secretary’s funny, it is about sex, and there’s a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you’re talking about a lot of other complicated things.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

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.

It’s that I’m 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually… I feel it inside myself. I don’t feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I’m trying to say.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you’d like to do it or if you don’t believe it.

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

But I’ve always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate – at least as far as possible – from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

We’re thinking now about adopting or having foster children, and if we did, I would look for a girl without a mother because I could relate to that.

It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

There’s no place to act in Kansas. You’re supressed.