Winning is everything in Hollywood.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

What you don't know about women is alot.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

belief is the death of intelligence.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.