I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
Children reinvent your world for you.
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.
You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.