I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.

Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I'm really not afraid.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.

If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else?... We're all consumers... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

Marriage is like a walk in the park... Jurrasic Park.

You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity.