I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.

I want my children to know what I stood for. I want to be remembered as a person who fought injustice. Suzanne Ahn

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.