Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that