Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.