The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.
I don’t believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it’s the best way to live.
It’s always interesting to step into the enemy’s shoes, and figure out what they’re like.
There’s always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you’re happy with the looks you’re born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we’re not happy with what we’re given.
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
There’s so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
I’ve always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys.
I really hate being self-conscious – and being conscious of being self-conscious.
I couldn’t be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn’t be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.
Love is very much perceived as “I couldn’t control myself; it’s love.” But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.
I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.
Microcredit is about giving hope.
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa’s funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
My dad’s a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Committing yourself to one person is sacred.