I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.
I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.
I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.
I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!
The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.
Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.
A lot of people assume that once you're working in Hollywood you become some sort of glamour-diva, which could not be further from the truth about me.
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
