"Maybe it's a backhanded compliment, but people like it better when I'm happy."

"I'm all for women ruling the world, but everybody wants a man."

"I don't question the reasons for my success. I don't need to know that and I don't concern myself with that."

"My mannerisms and whatever I do is spontaneous and unaffected. It will not be affected by what people think or say, or what they like. If somebody tells me they like something I probably won't do it anymore."

"I don't like having to explain myself. I resent having to make it comfortable for other people to understand. My job is not being in the public eye. My job is acting."

"I really did want to be a vet. Realizing I wasn't Dr. Dolittle was a blow."

"My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair."

"My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car."

"People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?'"

"You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself."

"What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day."

"I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way."

"I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve."

"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies."

"I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary."

"I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad."