The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.

Both believers and unbelievers go through temptations

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

Some people say Im attractive. I say I agree.

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

I never set out now to get a Grammy, or get an American Music Award, but it still is nice to be recognized.

In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers

It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change.

I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.