You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose--something that, if gone, will tear away a part of me.

Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.