I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

We all are doing the best we can. I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.