Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.

I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.

My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

A bend in the road is not the end of the roadUnless you fail to make the turn.

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game.

Why do we have 'Transformers 5 or 6?' Because young kids will go and see it four or five times.

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

Obamacare was very attractive, particularly to those without health insurance.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.