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.

Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

I saw a shrink because I though I suffered from fear of success.

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

In everyones life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I don't really think, I just walk.

I work pretty quickly. I'd probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out.

You can't live you life according to maybes.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.

The 'Ndrangheta is an exceptionally dangerous, sophisticated and insidious criminal organization, with tentacles stretching from Italy to countries around the world.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

When teams are dropping off, it's difficult, especially as a striker. You always have two centre-halves behind you and maybe a sitting midfielder as well. It's a bit more difficult creating chances.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

I like boxing.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.