I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.

I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.