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

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.

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.

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.

The average person will take the excuses, but the leader will always take responsibilities

Show me your good side and I will show you mine

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

There's something about playing every night, it becomes easy and it becomes fun. I love being up there and playing for different crowds every night.

I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.