Personal quotes:

"I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable." - US Weekly. 10.23.00.

"I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything." - US Weekly. 10.23.00.

"It's the hairspray." [on the secret of his enduring popularity]

"I have nothing. I live in a hut in Tibet. I don't like things." [what movie prop he's kept to himself]