Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

Magical since Birth.

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Life with another person is always difficult.