It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

I am an ordinary person.

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

God has given every man incomparably great power to reach the highest calling in life.

Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously they've never heard me tell a joke.

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.