You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

I have a very independent spirit.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

I just needed to leave Hollywood.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

People feel like they grew up with me.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

You can't be 16 forever.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.