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" I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. "

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" 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 love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors. "

" I remember when I was about 18, Sean Penn made a bet with me. He had just directed his first movie, and he's like, 'By the time you're 30, I will bet you $500 that you'll be sick of acting.' I'm still waiting to collect, because I'm not. "

" It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality. "

" I'm not into wrinkles. "

" You've got to grow up sometime. "

" I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days. "

" Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, 'Would you rather be interested or interesting?' And to me, it was always like, 'Interested!' How is that even a question? I feel very lucky that I'm just really, really interested in a lot of things. "

" I feel a little stronger than people perceive me. "

" Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years. "

" I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run. "

" I was fired from a movie because I did 'Heathers!' I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance screening and was offended by it and fired me. "

" It used to be that you commit to something, and then basically you spend your year doing that. Now there's a constant conversation of how you have to keep working in order to remind people that you're around. "

" I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in. "

" I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... I mean, if I had a 6 A.M. call, I had to be prepared. I had to be in bed at a certain hour. "

" Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too. "

" There's a couple of times that I did it for the... paycheck. Even when I was younger - I remember I did this movie that wasn't good, called '1969.' I totally did it 'cause I could get out of school. "

" On the set for 'Beetlejuice,' it was before people would go watch on monitors, and directors would be next to the camera. "

" The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader. "

" When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. "

" Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge. "

" It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. "

" I have my email on my Blackberry, and that's about it. "

" Scorsese would talk to me about this movie 'The Heiress' with Olivia de Havilland. We were talking about this scene in it, and suddenly we were rolling. It was very intentional, and I didn't realize - because we talk old movies all the time. "

" The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think. "

" I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies. "

" I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress. "

" People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them. "

" In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated. "

" I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer. "