When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I was just glad to be going to work again.

I may be an optimist.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

To live an extraordinary life you must resist an ordinary approach.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently there is a whispering in distant chambers an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.

I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.

I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't really matter to me. I've already got my friend who's going to be the donor, so that's taken care of. Just give me a few years and we'll go from there.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

I am never afraid of what I know.

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

I’ve known every love possible, but as the years stretched out, the love I longed for the most is the one I shared with my sister.

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.