As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.

I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I'd much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.

I don't have anything left to offer in the teen-angst area. I've done it every way I know how.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.