I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.
We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.
For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
You have to embrace getting older.
If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Being an actor lets me be a million different things.
You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.
Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time
No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.
One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.
It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.
