Sometimes I think to myself, "I wonder if Meryl Streep is ever like, 'Oh gosh, everyone thinks I'm so perfect! I wish that someone would give me a note.'"

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Heaven is a homegrown cucumber

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.