As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!

There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how much you might hate the character, it makes you understand it.

Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.

Writing is life – it’s where my heart leads me each day, and how I understand the world we live in.

There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.

Change has to come from outside our corrupt system.

Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.

Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.

You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company's mission.