I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone's love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.

Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

The less acting you have to do, the better, I think.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.