Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.