I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

I ask myself, who do i trust? Then i answered, No-one

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.