Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

Maybe they should name more drugs cute things. I don't do meth, but maybe if they called meth 'Stefanie' I would!

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.

One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.