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.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you can't feel anything, it doesn't mean it's not hurting.

In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise.

I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.

What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?