I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I may be an optimist.

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.