You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

My first vocation was dance.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

Good stuff doesn't just happen. You have to fight for it.

Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

Curiosity is the main energy.

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.