Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.

I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!

There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how much you might hate the character, it makes you understand it.

Don't ask her to be a rock for you to lean uponinstead, build her wingsand point her to the skyand she will teach you both to fly.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.

The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

I really love traveling, I love playing.

And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they screwed up!