It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

You are not your outer appearance, and you are not your body

I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.

Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her