Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

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.

The difference between your friend and your best friend is that your friend asks, ‘Are you are ok?’ and your best friend asks, ‘Do you want to talk about it?

People first make unhappy, then say stay happy.

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.