American Quotes

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

I'm afraid of flying.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

I like people trying to do two things at once.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

I can access emotions very easily.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.