I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.