Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.