I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

Sometimes in my life I feel like a bit of a sorceress who can't totally control all their power. I'm a Libra, so... Libra women are pretty magical.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life.

Any woman of virtue won't be easy to come by. She will make you jump over hurdles to reach her.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.

Is he under the influence or something?

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.