Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

In the end, winning is sleeping better.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

I have always been a good mimic.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.