I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Lucky ain’t a puppy no more and he don’t bark for just any old reason. It takes a mailman, a squirrel, a car, a bird, a blowing leaf, or a tumbling scrap of paper to get him stirred up now.

That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it.

I believe in empty spaces they're the most wonderful thing.

You can't fake wrestling. We can fake punch, but with wrestling you just have to go ahead and do it. You really need to see the hand hit the face, the head butting and everything.

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.