I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me." from Clean Sweep

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

Why stay on the earth except to grow.

Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.

We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.