"If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist."

"How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work."

"I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light."

"What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear."

"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."

"I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it."

"I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!"

"I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime."