We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other - you know, and notice our identity

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

I just want to do something challenging.

Dogs do know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing inside of you.

I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.

I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.

Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the great astrobiology of the galaxy.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.