I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

I am an ordinary person.

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall illlet yourself fall ill.

Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst.

The minute you see him, your hand will throb, your heart will pound out of your chest, and you won't be able to breathe.

Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But pray, please do explain who created the singularity?

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.

I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.