I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

I'm not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there's a reason why there's so much faith placed in science.

Wild nights are my glory!

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.