Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.