Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?

It's not, " Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can

I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.