Quotes

Comparing herself to her mother, Natalie Wood (1994), "We have a temper, we flirt, and we both are mischievous".

On the loss of her mother, Natalie Wood: "Her death was probably the most defining part of me. I've spent the rest of my life dealing with it. Her death changed me forever".

Falling in love for the first time, and then the heart break of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.

[on the tragic drowning of her mother Natalie Wood] I was in therapy from, like, the minute she died until I was 30.

[when director Larry Clark proposed that one of her love scenes with Vincent Kartheiser, in Another Day in Paradise (1998), be several degrees kinkier than previously arranged] I was, like, 'OK, what do these two want?' I knew if Larry really believed in the idea, he wouldn't have come with Vincent and he wouldn't have waited until the day of shooting to discuss it with me. So I was, like, 'Nope. Not going to do it. Sorry'. And they were just like little kids, just like, 'Waaaahhh'.

[on Another Day in Paradise (1998)] My character was written as a Puerto Rican prostitute, and I was, 'Why does James Woods think I was right for this?' But he was so compelling. He could be president.

I haven't been in touch with my aunt since my grandmother died in 1997 or something.

[on celebrity biographer Suzanne Finstad] It just amazes me how low she'll go.