I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

Its really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that its not going to be in a positive way.

...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

I love the pleasure of reading poetry.

My soul is crushed under the weight of tears I can’t spill.

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.

Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.'

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.