I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.