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You can't be 16 forever.
I have a very independent spirit.
I just needed to leave Hollywood.
People feel like they grew up with me.
Originally I considered myself a singer.
I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.
Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.
John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
I never really felt like I belonged in California.
I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.
I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.
We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.
And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.
Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.
I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.
I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.
I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.
I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend.
Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.
I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.
To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.
The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.
I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.
I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.
I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.
In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.
Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.
I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.
The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.
I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.
I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.
I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better - and they would grow back anyway.