We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

I am an ordinary person.

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.

He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It's an escape for me.

The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.