But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

I'm not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.