I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working.

Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

Nobody will achieve anything just by dreaming.

In Ireland a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.