Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

I'm insecure about everything, because I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

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