What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy Awards. I'd watched in my pajamas the year before! I felt numb - dazed and confused. I remember feeling light - weightless. More like limbo than cloud nine. At first I was like, This is my statue; nobody gets to touch it. And by midnight I was like, Please, someone, take this statue; it's too heavy! So I gave it to my brother, and he went off with it.