There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.

I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.