When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.
In other characters, it’s driven by insecurity, or it’s driven by fear, or – there’s always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.
I couldn’t care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
I want to feel my life while I’m in it.
I’ve been making a lot of pasta. It’s easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don’t think anything’s going to make a difference.
Fear focuses the mind.
We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you’re low. We need each other in that way.
Empathy is at the heart of the actor’s art.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.