I was the most popular person in my family. I was like a celebrity. All my sisters would fight over who got to sleep with me. I was always thinking up all the games, telling all the stories, and had the best clothes. I was the entertainment. We didn`t have television and we didn`t have movies, and I was always the boss. I`d write these plays and I`d make everybody be in them. Once, I had this idea that we`d put all the beds on top of one another so there would be only one bed, but it would be a really big, tall bed. Then we`d take turns sleeping on that bed while everybody else slept on the floor. Like, for a month. Everyone thought that was a great idea. I don`t know why. I guess because we grew up way, way out in the country and we never had any neighbors.

I have to tell you, I`m not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it`s like, `Oh please, get a room.` [on why she never chooses roles that involve crying]

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It`s an assumed familiarity. It`s phony.

Everyone had a nickname. Mine couldn`t be Jennifer "the boob" Tilly! (On her new poker career while on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".)

About Madonna: "We went to a club once. The doorman opened the rope for me but closed it on Madonna - he didn`t recognize her. She wouldn`t have gotten in, but I put in a good word for her." (In Style magazine, Sept/2006)

[On Seed of Chucky (2004)] "It`s really gruesome, but it`s a heartwarming story."

On her curves and her frequent cleavage baring characters; "People are always accusing me of having implants."

"If I was like some of the characters I played, I`d probably be dead by now".

I still haven`t made a film that defines who I am.

Spending time with Jim on a stage is an incredibly weird experience! I found myself unable to act seriously! Hard to shoot with the master of comedy!

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows--faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!