If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

When I got to know about my cancer, I was at the rock bottom of my life, and my work suffered for it.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

There are younger people watching CBS, but their audience isn't 13 to 25. The CW specializes in that.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say.

I love jewellery, and the idea of having something you've created become tangible is really exciting.

If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.

There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

I dont ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them.

It's important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.

I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role.

It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties.

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

Theres nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round.

I like bad boys... not really bad, but men with an edge... they should be clean but have that streak.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn't tell him that when we worked together on 'Another Me.'

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