My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything.

I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.

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

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.