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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.

All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.

A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.