If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.
You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.
Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.
Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.
The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.
The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.
That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.
My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.
My idols are all older.
Most movie stars don't change their look at all.
It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.
You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.