I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

There was a friend of my husband, John Monk Saunders, who was in charge of the sound department, which was a kind of reassuring thing.

I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don’t feel that any more.

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

I love romantic comedies. They’re for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There’s nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That’s...

I’m not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see...

Sinatra was just one of Mom’s friends.

I’m really into the details of the movie’s moments and the character’s hair and what’s in my handbag and what’s in the backseat of my car.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they’re high drama. It’s also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

I don’t know how people recognize me.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn’t relate to most of it.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the...

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn’t want to happen has happened.

I wasn’t really interested in doing television. I don’t have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we’re trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never...

I’m not into wrinkles.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I feel so much more enriched.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

Yes. I’ve been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will.

But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole.

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I’ve been looking for my whole...

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

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.