For her to pin all that on me is unfair. You'd think she was on the payroll of my ex-wife's divorce lawyer, pushing every button you could find.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

I'm not an impressionist, per se, but if you do any kind of comedy - and they ask you to do that, most of the time - there's some degree of appreciation, I think, involving somebody you like.

I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

Ms. Basinger has so contaminated this child now that she doesn't even want to be with her father,