I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

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.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

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.

Don't ever shelter the feeling of discouragement in your mind, because it only comes to distract one from one's true abilities in life.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

This guy is such an obvious cheater that once when he had a hole in one he wrote down zero on his scorecard.

There is always time to take more time.

Jazz to me is a living music.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.