We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.