Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?' ... Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness - your raging insecurity.
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.
Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.
If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.
Fear focuses the mind.
People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?
I can't stand most things that I see.
We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
People have to make their own decisions about their lives.
Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
