I am a very pragmatic person.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

I’m just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I’m having fun, I’ll do it. When it stops being fun, I’ll try something else. Maybe I’ll open up a chain of...

I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.

Tennis lets you talk while you’re playing.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can’t provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

It doesn’t matter if I don’t succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland’s daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

I wasn’t sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel – according to the actor’s marriage to the character.

It’s not that I really hate the clothes, I just don’t like all the polyester. And the bell-bottoms – the big ones – are pretty bad.

My husband and I enjoy going into a house and remaking it, top to bottom, from the structure it was to the home we want it to be.

Stardom isn’t a profession; it’s an accident.

I’m good at being sarcastic with guys. They don’t want the quiet, prissy little things.

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles...

Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.

Look, I know he’s been married three times before. I accept it, but I don’t want it driving up the driveway.

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.

I welcome turning 30 because I like approaching the beginning of something instead of the end. I’m at a really good place and feel grounded.

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it’s natural to show them being idiots at home.

You don’t forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I’m not for gratuitous nudity, but if there’s humor, I don’t have a problem.

I can’t deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it’s possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It’s a different driver, this is exactly what’s happening to the...

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.

There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She’s not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

Growing older doesn’t bother me.

I’m more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and...

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don’t want to know anything. If it’s good I don’t want to hear it; if it’s bad...

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn’t get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

Everybody knows that love goes away.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

And at five o’clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.