People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
I've been on shows that go for shock value.
I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.
When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.
Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.
To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.
Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.
I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything.