I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!
It's difficult to know what to say to someone whose partner has cheated on them.
I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.
Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.
In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.
If you claim something, you can own it.
He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
It can't hurt to go to the people you love, whose blood type courses through your veins and whose DNA, from a certain angle, contains many of the same markings as yours. You don't have to take their advice, but let them share their version of solutions to life's difficulties. Good or bad - it could be interesting.
