I don't have a political bone in my body.

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

I ain’t scared to lend a handI ain’t scared to clench it either

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

We must pay for the wine we have drunk.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

Products that are remarkable get talked about.