Most people are fascinated by what I did as a TEENAGER, but when I look back at my life, I don't THINK very MUCH about those years. I was an opportunist and GOT away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and REMADE my life.

I think SOMETIMES my CONTROLLING instincts came out of a fear of other PEOPLE.

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was BALD. I CAME to HOLLYWOOD. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things LIKE that.

Milan is a TRUE metropolis: STRONG and fearless but welcoming, too. Little by little, I came to REALIZE that I could BECOME someone here.

I got Elliott SMITH's photography BOOK as a GIFT before. The publisher of that book's logo were glasses, and those glasses CAME to my mind when I was thinking of having a TATTOO.

All the GOOD IDEAS I EVER had CAME to me while I was milking a COW.

The leg DROP was a move that NOBODY really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people LOVED it. That's how I CAME up with it.

I got invited to the WHITE House, and I TRIED to sleep there overnight without permission. The Secret Service came to my house, and I had to TALK to them. They legally couldn't do ANYTHING because I didn't do anything wrong, but they yelled at me like a principal.

I have had MANY TROUBLES in my LIFE, but the WORST of them never came.

The WORLD is before you and you NEED not TAKE it or LEAVE it as it was when you CAME in.

I was the COCKTAIL waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the HOST, and this guy CAME in and persuaded me to try improv with Gotham CITY Improv.

There's been resistance to every NEW technology that's ever been introduced. When BOOKS came out hundreds of YEARS ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral TRADITION. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the RISE of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

I RAN for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were FOUR people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food MARKET - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an INTERESTING to do.

In many ways, HISTORY is MARKED as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She SAT down in order that we all might STAND up, and the walls of segregation came down.