In the end, winning is sleeping better.
There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just one in a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them – and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
I guess I’ve played a lot of victims, but that’s what a lot of the history of women is about.
I don’t know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.
I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn’t allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you’re done with work.
I’m not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It’s the narrative that’s really the most beautiful thing about women.
There’s absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this – except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.
Look, it’s terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I’ll just kick it.
When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.
I suppose that’s my one little secret, the secret of my success.
As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don’t want to be some Botoxed weirdo.
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn’t have deep relationships with kids my own age.
We think, “If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable.” It’s all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.
I’m kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.
I’ve got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.
So, yes, there’s nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It’s about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It’s about being in it, not on top of it.