I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Value yourself and those who are in your company will reflect the same image.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.