You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

I spring train in the winter, around early December...

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.