You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.
I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I’m a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I’m betraying myself and my children.
I’m a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
There’s no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.
My choices in films are spontaneous.
The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.
They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It’s our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time – and how beautiful is that?
It’s taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.
I’m willing to fly close to the flame.
People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.
I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It’s a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it’ll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I’m just peaceful.
I’m especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women.
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they’re telling me about themselves.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It’s contrast.
It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
If I fall over and make mistakes, I’ll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.
With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.