Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way.

Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.

When i respect people they think that i'm powerless...

Lies can be formed from truths, but truths cannot be formed from lies.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.

Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt