Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.

To me marriage is for five or ten years

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.