This [my backside] is still very, very big.

I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows.

Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?

I don’t believe in signs. I believe in words, and action, and doing. And what you’re doing is sitting and waiting and that is one hundred percent unacceptable.

She tugged on his hair. "I'll have you know I'm no weakling." He grinned and kissed her forehead. "No, it takes a strong woman to kill a truck.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

When The Sixth Sense was the No. 1 movie in America, I had a Canadian boyfriend whose only assets at the time were a guitar and a van. I don't know what I was thinking.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.