I never trusted good-looking boys.

I am an ordinary person.

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Your world is nothing but a reflection of your mind.

The advantage to fighting the evils that are in plain sight is the fact that it is quite easy to win-over the "opposition".

To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.

It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform.

My health is important, so I learn everything I can about nutrition.

He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.