I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.

Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.