For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.

Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life meunderstand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

Luck is not a business model.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.