The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Tears don't bring people back." Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips."Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are for us. So that we can remember and celebrate and miss them and feel human.

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.

I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.