Quotes

There were many times when my father [John Huston] and I didn't agree, but we always became close again because I tended not to stand up to him for long. I seem to have been drawn to dominating men, like my father and Jack [Jack Nicholson].

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

I have a very full life and I am very happy with where I am now. I don't want to change anything. I once wanted to have children and it was not my choice not to have children but it hasn't broken my heart that I haven't. I think unless you're truly, wholeheartedly prepared to make a full-time commitment, you have to really think about it. I certainly wouldn't adopt children just because everybody in show business seems to be doing it.

I like to dance. I probably would have been a dancer. I love music, it's good for the soul and dancing is good for people. I dance on my own, I go to classes, I have that sort of energy. I need to dance. People only need to dance to make them feel happy.

What do I think of the Yankees? I'm sorry, I don't follow football.

I can't help feeling the world is on this terrible roller coaster where nobody can get it up since the atom bomb.

Of course, drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns - they don't admit that.

I was never happily hedonistic. There's no hedonism without a downside.

There were times when I hated my nose. But you grow up and you start to recognize that maybe it wasn't a bad thing that you weren't born Barbie.

I've never been the kind of actress whose sole interest was sex appeal, so I think that earns you some longevity. And I like character parts. It's a lot more fun and you don't have to rely on being the taste of the moment. That level of fame is probably very difficult to deal with. People screaming your name in the streets, quite honestly, isn't an audience I'm desperate to capture. I'm lucky. The people who tell me they like my work tend to be the kind of people I might be friends with anyway. I have a really nice audience.

It was difficult directing myself. For a woman it's extra-hard because you have to spend an hour and a half in hair and make-up and you're late to set up shots and you're changing clothes in the street and there's no time to recover.

I think I'm basically a gypsy. You know, from modeling.

[on working with her father John Huston on Prizzi's Honor (1985)] We had a great time on Prizzi's Honor. My father is extremely easy to work with. He chooses his actors, places his confidence in them and lets you get on with it. He is living proof that a director doesn't have to run all over the place.

I think people become more watchable after 30, when they have something between their ears.

[Academy Award acceptance speech] I'd like to thank the members of the Academy for honoring my fellow nominees and myself. This means a lot to me since it comes from a role in which I was directed by my father, and I know it means a lot to him. I'd also like to thank the entire cast and crew of "Prizzi's Honor;" I don't want to mention any names, you know who you are. And to my friends, for their love and support, and to my guardian angels, particularly Bruce Weintraub and my late teacher Miss Peggy Feury. Thank you.

[on Oprah Winfrey] She never had me on her show, ever. She won't talk to me. The only encounter I've had with Oprah was when I was at a party for the Academy Awards, a private residence. I was talking to Clint Eastwood, and she literally came between us with her back to me. So all of the sudden I was confronted with the back of Oprah's head.

I smoke weed, but I don't consider that a danger to my health.

I do think in this work we have to feel freedom. We have to feel as though we can say and do things that are not necessarily judged, particularly by the other people in the cast or crew.

Bad cocaine makes you feel shitty. Probably makes you run for the loo because it's laced with laxatives. Pure cocaine gives you a very light, airy, clear, and extremely pleasant feeling. But really, there's no such thing as good cocaine. I don't believe that people should take it recreationally.

Frankly, a lot of male movie stars behave in an offhand manner, like they're just more important than you are.

[on Bill Murray] He was a shit to me on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). The first week I was there, we were all in this little hotel, and he invited the entire cast to go and have dinner, except me.

Every woman should be married once.

[on Ryan O'Neal] He head-butted me. He took my head in his hands and hit it with full force against his head because he couldn't find me at a party. He's a deeply disturbed - or at least was then; I can't vouch for now, but I think he was - deeply disturbed person.

I can imagine lots of things, but I could never imagine carrying a baby.

Al Pacino does some schlock. But in some way he's forgiven, because he always goes out on a limb and does Salomé (2013) all by himself. Pacino is more experimental, I think. But Bobby (Robert De Niro), I don't know the last thing that I've seen him in that I thought, Wow, he's really cracking it.

I don't want to see Jack Nicholson doing Meet the Fockers (2004). I already get depressed if I see him in perfectly good Nancy Meyers movies. I like to see Jack in full rebellious feather, and that's how I love him best on film.