I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

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.

Hard work is the key to any achievement.

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

I hate going to fashion shows. I find them boring.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

We give this practice two thumbs down!

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.