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

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

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.

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.

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 am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.

Always remember coin has two sides.

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

Girl, I'm going to show you the bear in hug.

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.