People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.

There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.

I don't choose my projects based on genre, I choose them based on the role and whether or not I've tackled that yet, based on the director and such.

My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.