I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.