I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

Shit happens everyday. How you deal with it makes all the difference.

Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.

If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!