The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.