There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.

The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.

Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

Love is the most important healing power there is.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

I think there's something about supernatural shows that people see and just want to put me in them! I don't know. I just finished another show - 'The Nine Lives of Chloe King,' with Skyler Samuels, who was my girlfriend in 'The Gates' - and I play another supernatural character on that show.

I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

I think I can die happy now coz Ive just seen a piece of heaven.

If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.