Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

Sometimes you take all my words away from me.

Do your best, then put your feet on the table, and to God leave the rest.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

I felt like I kind of got to know [Elvis Presley], and got a little peek inside what was going on there. That was pretty amazing.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

I'm a Native American actress.

Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.