There are a lot of good actresses out there.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.

I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

There are a lot of good actresses out there.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.

I'm a slow reader.

I'm just an actor.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.

Drug misuse is not a disease it is a decision like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.

For me, I met my husband when I was going full steam ahead of what I wanted in my career. We sort of intersected and were like, 'Oh, hi, hello!' We were both on our way somewhere to speak and then just kept going together.

If anything can go wrong, it will

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.

We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'