When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.
We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.
[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.
Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.
You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
I've never been driven by box office.
I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.
Oh my God I am so cool.
I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"
If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.
People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.
I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.
I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.
I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.'
I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.
My interests still are my interests. That doesn't make me a bad mother. I think that makes me a really good mother, because when I go and creatively satisfy myself and those interests, I come home satisfied.
I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.
My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.
I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?
