The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.