People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.

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