I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.

Risk is the willingness to fail.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene