I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.