A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.

I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.