My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

I yearned for the woman who could bring me to my knees then raise me up again, making me stronger than before.

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.