On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Body language is essential for an actress even if you dont use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or at least that's the line I feed my parents when they start wondering where all that good money went.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

We will not allow anyone to perform any terrorist acts inside or from Afghanistan against anyone. We are a free country where Osama is living as a guest. This is the reality and it is up to the world to accept it.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was nasty to me, and we ended up having a scrap. I can remember thinking that there was going to be some serious bloodshed if we didn't stop, so I made a decision to walk away. It was a difficult thing to do, but the most sensible.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

My cousin is gay in school while other kids were dissecting frog he was opening flies.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

Musicians are impossible.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

I want to see my kids for dinner. I want to put them down at night. I want to see their soccer games after school.