Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.