I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

All the stars stay hidden behind the daylight.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.

The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.