Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Having an education is invaluable.

I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

Honesty scares quite a lot of people.

Good habits and intentional daily effort to turn excuses into solutions will help you become the person and entrepreneur that you want to be.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

Magical music never leaves the memory.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.