You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that’s inside that you’ve learned from that life period. There are really very...

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

I’m sort of a slob.

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I...

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

I’ve never had my heart broken.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don’t turn out the way you’re given the impression that they will. And...

The idea is that they wouldn’t want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So...

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

I can’t change the world. I have to fix me.

I don’t belong to the straights now – they didn’t get me back.

I always got along with all types of people – popular people as well as drug addicts.

I didn’t really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn’t think it was going to be that emotional. I...

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world’s best return performance.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don’t realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

With a parent, it’s always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

I’m only twenty-seven, and I’m not easy to pigeonhole. But if you need to do that, if it makes you feel comfortable, okay, fine.

I’ve lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff – like pay the bills, and he...

I get to pretend I’m flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That’s what I do for a living.

Brad is much more of a workout person. He wakes up every morning and does his yoga and can’t go to bed without doing some kind of exercise.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother’s distress.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

When you’re Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

Through my films, public appearances and even a couple of books, I’ve had the opportunities to share what I was learning along the way.

I’m looking forward to working with some of the best cast and crew there are.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I’ve just done.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

And it’s sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it’s very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There’s very little about the personal lives of the characters.

I didn’t think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be...

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

I love being someone I’m not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else’s skin.

I love playing strong women, even if they’re nuts.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

It’s not always thankless. Let’s face it – it’s not always thankless. I’ve gotten a lot of really great recognition and I’ve worked with amazing people.

It’s not the networks, it’s the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.

Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that...

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she’s not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact...

I don’t go to McDonald’s anymore. After I saw Super Size Me… no way!