The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

The work will stand, no matter what.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

We are the choices we have made.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

I am an ordinary person.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.