Quotes

Women don't like to be politically incorrect. But we already are.

I find [turning forty]very freeing. It's probably different for men, but for women when you start getting less-self-conscious, it usually corresponds with being fucking forty. It takes us that long to get it together. I think I finally have the ability to be really honest and embrace living the artist life, saying 'This is who I really am'. Never mind cancer. I never really had a chance to experience my own cancer, partly because I thought I was outrunning it.

In hindsight, I think I was outrunning my marriage. We were just married prior to my being diagnosed and we didn't really know each other very well.. getting to know each other's coping skills. It probably distracted us from the reality that loomed, quite honestly. It was the captain of the high school football team with the little Ally Sheedy goth girl. It was really very 'Breakfast Club'.

[types of acting roles she's offered] I get a lot of offers to play strippers, junkies, singers, and criminals. That's all well and good, but I'm not interested in that stuff unless there's a fight scene where I can do martial arts.

[why she isn't obsessed with staying fit] When I was twenty-nine, I got a little psycho in the head about working out and diet and fitness, and I got kind of skinny. I looked like a guy. I lost my curves, and it didn't look right.

[being proud of aging gracefully] I'd love to do Playboy when I'm about fifty years old. My boobs won't look like a twenty-year-old's, but that's okay.

[favorite type of sex scene] The thing I like is a scene where people are losing control. There's a movie called Sea of Love (1989) with Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin. I saw that at a particularly impressionable age, and I remember how he's kind of rough with her. It's a heightened moment of passion where he's necking with her against the wall.

It's my social responsibility to show the world what real boobs look like. My mother agrees with me on that.

[not getting implants] I did a fashion shoot in L.A., and I was changing on the beach, and there were these two girls working there who almost fainted when I took my bra off. I was like, "What?" They said, "We're sorry, but we didn't expect to see real boobs." That was a sad statement to me, that people expect to see breast augmentation.

[getting into acting] As soon as you're famous for any reason, people start sending you f**cking scripts. It doesn't matter if you can't act your way out of a paper bag. I was a theater major who accidentally got into a band. I stuck with acting, but good roles are few and far between.

[her stage name] The idea was to advertise "Come see Bif Naked." I guess we thought more people would come see the band.