I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

Once players have my trust, they have it.

It's okay to get stoned, as long as its not by other people.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.

The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.

The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]

When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.