There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.