My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

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

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.