I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of crazy characters and dress up.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow

The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.

Those who love the rain much cannot long remain dry!

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.