You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

Film, I think, is my medium.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

I can buy and sell any of these people who are always criticizing me.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

Feel the joy of life when you cry, when you smile, love or feel shy.

Everyone at every minute of his life must feel something. Only the dead have no sensations.

Every day is a good day when you run.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.