I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

We are not a creature of the media, so we are not depending on the media publicizing us to make us successful.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.