Quotes

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

[describing to David Letterman her eccentric family's devotion to their patriarch's invention of the Delany flush valve] My grandfather used to say, "It may be shit to you, but it's our bread and butter."

When you do a nude scene with an actor, he sometimes gets an erection if he's into the scene. It's sort of a compliment, isn't it?

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

I love to talk dirty during sex. I've been told to shut up before.

I'd be so happy to be living in the tropics, wearing just a sarong. I hate wearing clothes.

[on being cast as "Lisa Emerson" in Exit to Eden (1994)] I've always been cast as the girl next door because of anatomy - the round face and round body. Now I get to express another side of me.

I've been dating younger men since my 20s. When I was 29... I dated someone who was 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

I think Middle America has changed in terms of fantasies - I mean, that's who reads ''Penthouse Letters", right?

I feel guilty very easily. I think, if anything, my exhibitionist side is a reaction to Catholicism.

[naming her favorite male body part] I have a few. I like that dent right here [indicating pelvic bone], that V. And I love butts. There's nothing better than a good butt.

I'm a big believer in phone sex with my boyfriend. I've been on for about an hour. The anticipation is great. And phone sex is safe too. I should do ads for AT&T.

I actually give my mother full credit for my healthy attitude about sex.

There's something liberating about walking around half undressed and not really caring about what people think.

I like water; naked in water. The combination's good. Everybody looks good underwater. The truth is because of the water and the buoyancy, you look good. Nobody looks bad underwater.

Although it was a small part, I auditioned [for Moon Over Parador (1988)] because I knew it was filming in Brazil. I got acquainted with the country two years ago, when I doing Where the River Runs Black (1986). Brazil is the sexiest country in the world!

I used to be stimulated by sex. Now I'm stimulated by ideas. Or some good ideas about sex.

I once said that Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson, and James Woods were among the best endowed males in Hollywood. I said that if you put the three of them in a room together, "there wouldn't be room for anyone else." After that, everyone thought I'd had sex with all three men. I haven't, or else I wouldn't have talked about it. And Jimmy Woods is so proud that he's happy to share the fact with you.... But I have seen Willem--I had a bird's-eye view when we did a nude scene in Light Sleeper (1992). When you do a nude scene with an actor, he sometimes gets an erection if he's into the scene. It's sort of a compliment, isn't it? I told Willem I would be insulted if he didn't get an erection. And one line we had in our nude scene was "Quite an erection you have there." And it truly was.

[when filming Exit to Eden (1994)] I had more fun with the control scene. I mean that's every woman's fantasy come true. I think a lot of women would kill to do what I'm doing.

We like younger men for the same reason you like younger women: stamina and skin.

We need you [men]. Because a vibrating piece of plastic can't kiss.

There are two spots on women that need to be touched more: the back and the lower neck. Fireworks.

[on the camping trip with Mike and Dave in the Desperate Housewives (2004) episode, The Story of Lucy and Jessie (2009)] I just got such a thrill out of it because it's always been a fantasy of mine to go camping with two men. So I said it was my "Jules et Jim" fantasy!

[her sexual fantasy: having a threesome with two bisexual men] I have a "Jules and Jim" fantasy, definitely - you know, two men and a woman in love. And I remember reading in a magazine that the high you get from falling in love only lasts about four years. So with two men, you might be able to make it last eight.

[the first time she had sex] It was wonderful. I had orchestrated the whole thing. My parents were on vacation. I had just turned 16. He made me wait. I skipped school and I did it in my own bed.

To me, the coolest thing about having a boyfriend is that you can just stare at his naked body and not have to look away out of politeness. I find the male form so fascinating.

[on Pasadena] Tommorrow night, I seduce a security guard in the dressing room in the store. Next week, I'm making out with my daughter's boyfriend and the week after that, it's his brother. That's only 3 episodes right there!

I did ''Equus'' in the nude. That was my first taste of how liberating it could be. The town, however, was shocked. I was like the whore of Augusta, Michigan.

A lot of actors are really uncomfortable with their bodies and when you get to sex scenes, they try too hard because they want to be macho.

[about skinny - dipping] I like the naked and the water; the combination is good.

[sexuality] Our country has always been so weird and puritanical about sex. I've always felt more European in that I believe sexuality is human, so we should express it and celebrate it. There's nothing dirty about it.

[rumors she's a lesbian] Oh, I hear that rumor all the time, that I'm secretly a lesbian. Honestly, if I were a lesbian, you'd know it. It's not like I'm one to hide things about my life.

[kissing Chaunté Wayans in a play] I'm very happy about that. And Chaunté's an excellent kisser.

[father seeing her nude in the play Equus] After he died, my step-mother told me that when my father came home from that trip, he said to her, "You don't know what it's like to see your daughter on stage, naked, and she's absolutely beautiful." He was so proud of me. I guess that play made him realize I had grown up. It meant a lot to me.