- [on husband Ahmet Zappa's noteworthy proposal] I said, "I need something to make sure that this is real", a Ferrari or something, and so he gave me a highlighter pen. It was a yellow highlighter pen . . . He told me that his father, Frank Zappa, had asked his mother to marry him with a pen.
- [on performing in Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)] I loved being surrounded by monsters and I guess it goes back to my childhood. I loved fairy tales--Aesop's Fables, Grimm's Fairy Tales. I was a big fan of Little Matchstick Girl.
- I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.
- I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.
- I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke.
- God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.
- I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?
- I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.
- A wedding is such a girl thing.
- I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.
- I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.
- Bathroom humor, fart and poo-poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
- I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices--not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.
- I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.
- I'm flat-chested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a "beauty".
- My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.
- I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.
- I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
- I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.
- I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to . . . really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.
- Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamor that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.
- The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, "That's enough, guys!'
- I never want to be a show-off or attention-getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.
- I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.
- I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.
- I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?
- I have three sisters, that's it for the family.
- I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I "should" do for my career.
- I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.
- It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.
- It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
- In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.
- I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.
- It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.
- Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.
- My mother dressed me always very conservatively.
- My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.
- I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.
- I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.
- I went through a period of pulling away from everything--acting, people--not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.
- I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.
- I was a smoker for about 20 years.
- If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.
- Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.
- I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.
- I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
- [interview in "Vanity Fair", Oct. 2017, on being sexually harassed by director James Toback during an audition in his hotel room in 1999] I felt trapped. I did not know how to get out and save face and not make a scene. Was I imagining it? He dropped some names [of actresses] that he did some really dark sexual things with. These felt like lies and dark gossip and that he would add my name to the list. I went to leave and he got up and blocked the door. He said, "You have to do this for me. You cannot leave until I have release." I said, "What do I have to do? I cannot touch you. I cannot have sex with you." He said, "It's O.K. I can come in my pants. I have to rub up against your leg. You have to pinch my nipples. And you have to look into my eyes." I thought, "Well, if I can get out of here without being raped . . .". He walked me back to the bed. He sat me down. He got on his knees. And he continued to press so hard against my leg. He was greasy and I had to look into those big brown eyes. I tried to look away, but he would hold my face. So I was forced to look into his eyes. And I felt disgust and shame, and like nobody would ever think of me as being clean again after being this close to the devil. His energy was so sinister. After he finished, he told me, "There is a girl who went against me. She was going to talk about something I did. I am going to tell you, and this is a promise, if she ever tells anybody, no matter how much time she thinks went by, I have people who will pull up in a car, kidnap her and throw her in the Hudson River with cement blocks on her feet. You understand what I'm talking about, right?" He looked at me with those bug eyes that had just raped my leg. And I said, "Yes. I understand." I left. I was shaking and scared . . . I would like to see Toback admit this happened. None of us are asking for money, for jobs, or for fame. We don't want to be threatened on social media or called whistleblowers by people who don't know what it means to be defiled and degraded and made to feel worthless. What I do want, in my dreams, is for someone bigger than me to call him out. I want to light the pyre of public opinion.
- I'm a character actress. I don't bleach my teeth, I chain-smoke, I'm flat-chested, I don't mind being nude, I'm not precious, I'm pale as a ghost, I have crow's feet, and I believe I can play anybody.
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