Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

The self was both its origins and its journey.

What's the feeling, nobody can hear you???What's the feeling you to scream and nobody hears?What's the feeling, to can't do anything?

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.'

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens

But separate a man from his car - that's inhuman.