I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.

Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

I asked you to marry me – and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.