I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

Stupidity is a pretence to know unkowns, where as learning is a solution

Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you… don’t want to end up like me.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.