Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.