I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Having an education is invaluable.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you?

Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.