So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

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

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

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

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.