A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Having an education is invaluable.

I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

People don't like getting older, but they do like changing

Let your body be your holy temple.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.