I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

You recreate yourself, when you relax.

The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.