Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

"Home is where my mom is."

"I`ve always seen myself as one of those `show people.` My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people."

"I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!"

"I don`t read the script a zillion times, I don`t like to analyze things and my mind can go there very easily."

[On seeing her Girl, Interrupted (1999) character on screen] "I always envisioned her looking like a spindly blonde, but she looked like me".