If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

It is time to change the paradigm of the church and of every Christian

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

Success is just being able to do what I love for a living, spend all my time doing it, connect with fans, and continue that for a long f - king time.

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.