If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

I can't stand most things that I see.

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.