I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

I do not teach. I relate.

You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

thank you-for her-for everything." _Edward Cullen