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.

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

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

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.

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

Fear focuses the mind.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

Guard your good mood.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.