The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.

I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.