I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.

A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things!

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

Working for Oprah is a dream come true. She was on my dream board for the longest time.

From what Ive been told the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help that feeling of being stuck.

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

I know that some people, when they are growing up and they - as a person of color in a majority community - that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange.

I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Where there is Hunger Law is not regarded and where Law is not regarded there will be Hunger.

I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.

I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their children are eating.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see the deaf can hear and the heart feels forever.

The decision I've made has come from my heart. That's me, to follow my heart.