Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult...
When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.
It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.
It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.
I'm of the alien nation of actors. I'm only really comfortable with other aliens.
I'm an actor, that's my contribution.
I wanted kids to know that it's really Cruella going through this punishment for what she was planning to do to the puppies.
I thought it was astounding that a woman was censured for wanting to just take up photography. I thought, my, how the world has changed.
I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.