It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

You express different energies at different times in your life.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

I love being outside and getting fresh air.

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

If you’ve got an idea, act on it up to its perfection.

Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.

loveliness is infernally sad.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.