If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.

It's OK not to be OK.

Was I happy? Maybe more content thanbouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?

People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.