Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it’s letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need – and it’s wonderful in that way. And when it’s right, you’re lost in the moment.
While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn’t want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh’s short, promising life, she was India’s daughter. Tonight she’s our daughter too.
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I’m superstitious enough to believe that.
I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.
I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. “Devil Wears Prada” did not make me change my style. But it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It’s amazing.
I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we’re giving to the world, what we’re withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.
People have to make their own decisions about their lives.
Being an actor lets me be a million different things.
We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
Acting has to reach everybody on some level – it’s a communication of feeling – but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.
I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.
I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It’s like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.
You can’t sing when you’re upset. You can’t sing when you’re crying. You get all congested and disgusting.