Go for the burn! Sweat!

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.