I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.