Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.