Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's a tug-of-war between two voices: the one who knows she can and the one who's scared she can't.

You win an Oscar, and immediately people ask how you feel. So you don't have time to actually feel anything because you have to generate a response. And then some of the feelings you have are so intimate and visceral, words don't really do them justice.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.