If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.
Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.
Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.
Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.
Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.
I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.
And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.
I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.
You learn an enormous lot through failure.
I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.
I'm so misunderstood!
An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.
I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.
When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?
