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.

I make my mistakes in public.

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

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

It is incredible, when you start believing in angels your life becomes a lot smoother.