It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart.

We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.