Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.
It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.
The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.
I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.
I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
I am proud of what I am. I am a librarian.
I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.
I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.
I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is.
I just kind of muddled through in my 20s. I did whatever I got offered, to be honest, to pay the bills. I didn't really know what I was doing. There are some actors in their 20s who are very sure. I wasn't very sure what I was doing. I feel like I've only really just got going.
Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.
As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.
At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.
The thing about acting is even if you get technically more skilled at what you do, every time you begin a film or a play you're terrified. You don't know if you're going to pull it off. Every film and every story has its own set of challenges. I've never felt like, oh yeah, that's it, nailed it! You can never sit and rest. That's why it's such an exciting job. It's beginning again every time you begin again. New story, new character, new place, new time, new director. It's like moving to a different planet and trying to figure out how to live there.
I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.
If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.
Now we're in a recession, and at war, so people want to see this chihuahua movie, The Fountain. To be told to come to terms with death, that death is the road to all - it's a very intense subject. But as with movies that are very unusual, that have come to be thought of as very interesting, one finds out at the time that they were not understood. So who knows? We'll see. A lot of people really, really loved it, and a lot of people didn't get it.
I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
