In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

Find out what you don’t want to know about yourself, what you’re afraid of.

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

My idols are all older.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one’s manhood.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn’t just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, ‘This is going to be huge for me!’ And it really wasn’t at all.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

That is why it’s so fun to make movies… you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

It’s easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy’s in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that’s an easier role.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to...

Absolutely. I – you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once – once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no – there...

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

To have four kids – and to have been pregnant with two of them while I was working on the show – was a lot. I just can’t believe I did it!

I tell people retirement isn’t what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

We don’t live in a world that’s black and white.

I’m a stranger here. I’m a threat. Definitely. I didn’t realize they were so insecure. It just came to me now, but it true. Very insecure.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack...

Everybody grows up.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

My kitchen’s pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it’s eye level – it’s true! – and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it’s right there.

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next...

There’s a picture of this woman who’s got every different color hair. I thought that would be really interesting to pick up my kids looking like that.

When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul...

You can call me an older woman – I don’t mind that at all – just don’t call me an old one, because I’m not.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

And remember, it’s also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without...

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...