What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.

Robert De Niro, even though I've been in two other movies with him, I never really got to know him at all. But on this movie ["The Big Wedding"] I did.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.