I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

Live to the point of tears.

She didn’t sound overjoyed. She didn’t sound even slightly joyed.

Better he think me rude than not think at all.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.