Quotes

I'm the girl next door who learned how to make life work the hard way. I lived it. Victim to victory. When you find the joy, you have to share it.

A dancer knows how to move naturally. Dancing allows me to do almost subliminal things as an actress that the audience might sense, but yet not be fully aware of.

I hope I never see a Pinto again in my life.

[Concerning Steven Spielberg's decision not to make an E.T. sequel] I never heard about that at the time, but when I did hear about it, yes. He actually asked me at one point what I thought, and I said, "Steven, I think you should leave it a classic."

[Concerning her role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)] I mean, what can you say about being involved in that film? "Thank you forever, God! Thank you that I'm involved in a film that still touches people's lives!" I have so many stories of how that film has touched people so deeply. I just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. Sometimes, after I'd been waiting in my dressing room for a week and a half without working, I didn't feel that way. But there's yin and yang in every experience.

Cujo (1983) was the hardest thing I've ever done, and it's the film I'm proudest of. You know, how far can you break down? When do you break down? How do you break down? It was just relentless. At the end of it, they treated me for exhaustion for three weeks afterwards. I'm still on adrenal supplements, because I just blew out all my adrenals! People don't understand that when an actor goes through any kind of emotional stuff, your body chemically goes through it exactly like you were in fight-or-flight in your life. I was in maximum fight-or-flight for weeks.