I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

I never wear leather.

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

I go to bed with men, not boys.

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.

But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

I don't think of myself as a writer.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.