Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.