Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

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.

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.