My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.

Life is too short to be sharing its precious moments with the crowd.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

I have an Instagram [account] but I don't feel a lot of love with it.

... new EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.