People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make..

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - chi….

The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all incredibly beautiful and there….

I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in ….

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story..

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades..

I love the international feeling In New Yokk. Different foods. Different people. There's everything here. Museums, theatre, there's so much to do I f….

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans..

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper..

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe..

I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting o….

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative..

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot….

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles..

Working with a green screen is easy. It's just like being a kid. But it's not nearly as satisfying..

Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women ….

I was offered more work after the Oscar. When I was younger, I would take whatever I was offered because it was money and work and experience. In a w….