I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

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.

Life is full of beauty, notice it and live your life to the fullest potential. Go after your dreams.

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Words are but empty thanks.

The importance of gratitude is never forgotten.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.