Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.