So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.