But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

I'm always a fan of a good horror film.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

Drama was always clogging up the phone line. It's like that's what people call me for.

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.