You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.

The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.

If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.