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" I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. "

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" I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. "

" I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. "

" Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. "

" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "

" Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. "

" 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. "

" Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. "

" All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. "

" The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. "

" I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. "

" The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. "

" I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words. "

" Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word. "

" I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. "

" The work will stand, no matter what. "

" I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally. "

" Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it. "

" I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life. "

" You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially. "

" I need to go where people are serious about acting. "

" I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine. "

" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "

" When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it. "

" America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. "

" Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. "

" Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living. "

" You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. "

" It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great. "

" We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8. "

" I think your self emerges more clearly over time. "