If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Adults are only kids grown up

Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?