I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else

The darkest things of this world nestle inseparable from, and do not eclipse, its equally boundless graces and glories.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

If I have to face the end of human existence, I want to look totally smoking when it happens. Now shut the hell up.

God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.

L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.

It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.

It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

The left are afraid of independent thinkers. They are afraid of people who are able to reason and think on their own.

What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?