And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either.

I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]

I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

Life is a sacred breath.

So much for a great opening speech, that sucker done tucked tail and is hiding in the deepest part of my brain, sucking its thumb.

I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

I’m not into ‘Let’s go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday’ – that’s just not me.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

Iran's nuclearization is the greatest single national security threat America faces.

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.