I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.

It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it.- Leslie

Life is chemistry, not biology.

Every flutter in her chest when he sat beside her, every flush to her cheeks after a compliment, and every longer-than-average embrace would end tonight.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

Just jump in with both feet and live your life, no matter what.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.