"When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry."

"I was always a junk food person, still am."

"I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids."

"I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then."

"I'm not looking for sympathy at all."

"I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film."

"Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women."

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."