I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

I've quoted Lost in America several times.

People do eventually see something that's quality.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.