I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place..

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to giv….

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame..

I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little….

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance..

I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw….

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing..

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife..

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made..

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to b….

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am ….

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning..

There's no wrong way to experience a film..

The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly..

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them..

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. I….

To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way s….

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fight….

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it..

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul..

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other..