You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

Okay, babe, I'm here.”

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.