I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting