More yoga in the world is what we need.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York`s La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

It`s always refreshing to step into another time.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There`s always something going into the mouth.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I like someone who`s suffered from both sides.

I`m fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it`s about immediate delivery. There`s less risk and less art.

So now I`m left with cigarettes, and I`m trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I`ll be done.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

The industry`s memory is quite short, it`s true.

Well, I didn`t really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn`t pull up and leave when I felt like it.

I don`t really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

I`ve always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

[about on-line dating] Look, it`s so interesting, because being a mom of a daughter - forget about it. I`m so hyper mama-bear protective: "In no way is it ever all right to meet anybody you`ve [only] ever met on-line! Period! End of story. Close chapter, end the book." But in my prickly, paranoid way, I`d say, "Well don`t they kind of pre-screen people at these agencies?" So I like the fact these services exist, and I think if you`re meeting someone randomly outside the protection of the umbrella, you know you can`t say you weren`t warned.

[comparing herself to her mother, a former "Playboy" magazine centerfold] Mom was better endowed.

[talking about her Oscar nomination (her father Burt Lane, who managed her early career, passed away in February 2002] The only phone call I really yearn to make is one I can`t, which is to say, "Guess what, Dad?"

Even the short men I know appreciate a woman in heels.