Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

I swam my brains out.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.