Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

People confuse the person and the part.

Acting is my calling, not my career.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

Only the boring get bored

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.