Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?