What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

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.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

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

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.