I’ve always been able to let stuff go when I’m done with work.

I’ve come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It’s genetic.

At times he could be very critical. He didn’t like prints on me. He didn’t like stripes. He didn’t like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.

I don’t believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker… but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I’m pretty instinctive. I’m a quick learner.

I was thrilled with the nomination, but I didn’t want to go to the ceremony. I hated the idea of sitting there smiling and not winning.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

We can’t compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

I don’t enjoy other people’s dramas, and I don’t enjoy mine.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

They live between seven and nine years and sometimes they grow up to be teenagers but she said that my rabbit was actually really laid back.

I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

Toots said to me, ‘I gotta hand it to him, thought,when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, ‘Here’s what I’m sure I owe you.’

When I go, if there’s a tombstone it will say, She doesn’t give in. She doesn’t give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that...

I’m drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don’t know how it’s affected or will affect my acting career.

I was very happy living a normal existence in New York, having my circle of friends. I lived very anonymously for 12 years prior to The Sopranos.

The fingers were pressed around my waist and then by leverage, they lifted me up into the air, and all the close ups were done that way.

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.