Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

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.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

In the end, winning is sleeping better.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.