I like movies I can relate to.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black.

There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.

Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

Well, I have chlamydia. Thanks for this, Mom. Good class.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.