If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.