As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

Any obsession is dangerous.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.