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The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.