My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.
When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.
I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.
With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.
I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.
When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.
That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.
I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
Well, I can wear heels now.
I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.
Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.
I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.
They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?
It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.
You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.
I'm spontaneous. I jump in. I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other; I know that it sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it's a more natural process.
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.
I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.
Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.
