I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I am scared of becoming a mother.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

All my boys make me laugh.

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I'm not perfect at all.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

I love observing people.

I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

Beauty is not defined by the size of you jeans.

I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

A teacher is no longer just a teacher but a tutor therapist guru nurse practitioner Dutch uncle minister without portfolio and cop on the beat.

'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was just stuff that I was dealing with.

I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

A baby nursing at a mothers breast is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.