Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

Utterly, irrevocably, lost

Isn't it awkward how a lot of the people who tell others to 'stop being cheap, ' are usually the same ones that end up borrowing money from them?

The great object is that every man be armed.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

I don't know what's going to happen to me tomorrow. That's why I don't save my best for last.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.