I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Music is hugely important to me.

My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."

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