You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.

You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.