I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why?

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.