A low budget is uncomfortable.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible

If you do what is bad, Lay upon your knees and call upon HIM, and he will guide you in the right way.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.