I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

I love food and I love sex.