I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia].

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

I want people to know that I won't just assume that people will like my music.

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

I really like to act, and I really like to perform. I enjoy producing as well.

I think that people who don't like animals tend to be selfish, but I'm biased.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.

I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

It is very important to just be real and have a good check on reality in life.

I think I have specialised in comedy movies. And people have liked me in them.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

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