The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
Only dumb people are happy.
On Sofia Coppola’s 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you’ve got to fix your karma.
I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.
Love is the core of everything – nothing survives without it.
Real girls aren’t perfect, and perfect girls aren’t real.
I don’t mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you’re Barbara Streisand.
I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
I need the gays at the shows. If I don’t have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they’re the best core audience you can have.
I’m pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I’m completely extraordinary, and in other ways I’m completely weird and eccentric.
I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don’t know, but I didn’t. So I am what I am and I’m pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.
When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.
Don’t date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.
There’s not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They’re expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.