I learned nothing while I was in school.

If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

I am the boss of me. You can't change anyone else. Women think they can. But you know what? You can't.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

For me, drama is conflict.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

I am not a failure if I don't succeed; I am successful because I tried.