If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.

All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.