I make my relationships at work.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

My face is my career.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

We are getting more and more imports from abroad.

Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.

One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.