It's better to be interested than interesting.

We need women friends, women who challenge us.

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

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

Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.