Q 6

PLAYBOY: Do you have any advice for Lisa Bonet?

Justine Bateman: It's her career, it's her choice. If I were in that position, I wouldn't have taken that role in Angel Heart. Essentially, she was the tits and ass in the film. I didn't see the necessity of it. What Julie Andrews did in S.O.B. was great; it worked. If it's just to take it off to take it off, hire someone else to do it.

Q 7

PLAYBOY: When you lunch with your friends, what are the recurring themes? Plumbing? Sex?

Justine Bateman: I don't really talk about sex with that many people. It's, like, why talk about it? Even though you try to avoid it, you always wind up talking about films. Always. Or old Twilight Zone episodes. I don't sit around and gab about guys, because I'm usually with guys. Me and my guy friends gab about girls. I learn a lot from that. I've been hanging out with guys since I was six.

I've learned things, like don't start calling him every night if he's not calling you, because he's trying to gently say that when he's ready to call you, he's going to call you. Don't get hung up on that. Go live your life. If he happens to call you later, you might even have forgotten about him.

Girls should know about football. At Thanksgiving, I always resented the fact that it was assumed that I would go in the kitchen and help. I wanted to watch the football games, too.

So many girls don't know how to hang out and talk with guys. "So, what's going on in your life now?" "Just work and stuff." "Oh, really? What have you done?" It's like this interview. Girls are always interviewing guys. Just hang.

Q 8

PLAYBOY: How does the sentence begin that indicates the guy's a total dork?

Justine Bateman: It's not a sentence, it's an attitude. You're walking through a club on the way to the rest room and there's some guy on the other side of the room who calls you over with his finger. "Me?" His finger motions you over.

Here's something I really despise: You're standing at the corner, waiting to cross the street, and you're just thinking--right?--and some guy comes up to you and says, "Hey, smile; life's not that bad." You want to turn around and say, "What the fuck makes you think you've got any right to tell me how I'm feeling?"

I went into a store the other day and I was chewing on the end of my glasses, and the guy who was working there said, "Don't chew on your glasses." I said, "Why not?" He said, "You shouldn't." I said, "Says who?" He said, "I'm just kidding." You never find a girl going up to a guy and saying, "Hey, cheer up! Smile! What are you so misarable about?" He'll turn around and belt you.

Q 9

PLAYBOY: What line never fails with you?

Justine Bateman: "Want to see my Harley?"

Q 10

PLAYBOY: Is it in his kiss?

Justine Bateman: Yes. And the way he dances.

Q 11

PLAYBOY: Who leaves first in your relationships, you or the man?

Justine Bateman: Me.

I once went to a wedding where there was one unlit candle in the middle and one lighted candle on either side of it, representing each of those people. They each took a candle, they lit that center candle together and then blew their own candles out. I thought that was the most asinine thing I'd ever seen, because you're blowing out your own individuality, which is what attracted you to each other.

If I ever get married, it will be at a big party on the beach in Mexico. Why start a marriage on a serious note?

Q 12

PLAYBOY: What sex acts do not constitute adultery?

Justine Bateman: Flirting.