Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

I have a great life, to tell you the truth.