It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

...I could feel what was left of my soul just slipping away as I fed on that girl until she was totally and completely drained.

I'm always open to discussing collaborations.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

I've dated many different types. I was all over the map. For me, it was learning about being attracted to the right things in a person, not the wrong things.

Mistakes are their own instructors

Lice have been with us and evolving with us for as long as we have existed.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

I don't care about people who don't care about me. If people are negative or mean, then that's their issue. Screw them.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Beauty is a mute deception.