I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

Success is a great deodorant.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.