Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

I am an ordinary person.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.

I was just born to swing, that's all.

If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.