When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

What you don't know about women is alot.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

A determined soul and indomitable spirit are necessary for any achievement.

With a strong spirit, you will survive any situation.

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafriad of toil

There are many monsters, oh, many!

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.