Nobody acts purely selfishly.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

I think listening to people is helpful.

It is so important to remember that, while I love my job, there are other fantastic avenues to explore in my life.

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.

As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.