I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

Brace for the worst, hope for the best

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

Real love is booty grabbin

With love, even the rocks will open.

I find Donald Trump to be very kind and generous. I find him to have a great sense of humor.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.