I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

Virginia Mayo had kind of a small role in The Best Years of Our Lives, but you got the whole character in one scene. Where are those parts? I was talking to somebody about great actors: Morgan Freeman's name came up, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington. And I realized, there're no black actresses. Where's there a black actress who's been extremely successful in the past 10 years?

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.