I liked that idea. Someone who’s trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

It’s such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

I’ve been in this business for years and I’m still befuddled by the ways of this town.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

Besides, here Chris is in her late 40s, so what would all of a sudden come over her and make her get married? Don’t ask about me.

I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the...

Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I’m not good at accepting help.

Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.

I instinctively knew that if I only did films I’d probably become a movie star and earn a lot of money but I wouldn’t be a great artist.

I’m not doing any more nudity.

I’m so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I’ve always been a real physical person.

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

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.

He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the...

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

If you don’t have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don’t go looking for someone. When it’s right, they’ll come to you.

However, one of my best qualities is being able to organize my priorities and then, when it is time to shift gears, I can do it.

The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.

I had to fight my whole life to break out.

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

A being in a bonnet is not therefore a woman, a being with a beard is not therefore a man, nor yet is a wolf in sheepskin a lamb.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she’s a feminist but I...

My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is – well, our daughter and our son – is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on...

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

We haven’t done such a great job, so I don’t know why God couldn’t have started over somewhere else. I don’t necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don’t buy into the...

Children don’t understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

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.