My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'

There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.