Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

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.

He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.