As much as I would have liked to have kept my cancer private, I now realize that I have a certain responsibility to those who are fighting their own fights and may be able to benefit from learning about mine.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

I'll do anything to stop my son running out into the street. I'll take a bullet for him. He's hit me a few times. He shows no remorse afterward.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.