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

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.

I love color. I'm enjoying trying all different shades. Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

It's so much more fun to do the work than to talk about it. I will have to admit that. Everybody gets to decide how they feel, and what to take away by themselves, and that's what you hope for. That people will take away different things and have different experiences from the work we do as actors. So I don't like to prescribe how to feel about the work I do.

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor