We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.

Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.

Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first

Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.