The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

My idols are all older.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

Most movie stars don't change their look at all.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

He who hesitates is not only lost but miles from the next exit.

Focus on your strength and maximum its potential.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.

A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers. Many Protestant confessional traditions, like Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Reformed, have used catechisms for centuries. Initially, most catechisms were intended for children.

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

There is so much that people take for granted.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.