“The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they're not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, "If you'd done that in the movie, you'd have won an Oscar, girl."”

And that’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.
2000s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (31 August 2004)

On her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice, in Allure magazine (October 2007)

Appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (January 17, 2008)

op. cit.

Playboy 20q http://www.playboy.com/magazine/20q_archive/siskel-and-ebert.html

The Playboy Interview (1992)

O interview (2003)
Context: I wanted to win it for one specific reason — to send the Oscar to the Frida Kahlo House in Mexico, where Frida herself once lived. It's going to bring a tear to my eye now. I wanted every Mexican who walked into that museum to remember that what motivated me to make this movie, to dream this dream, had everything to do with where I came from — and I didn't stop dreaming until I finished the film. But the dream was the movie, not the Oscar.

Hosting the 2001 Academy Awards