“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

“No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man…' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.”

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”

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

“I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.”

“It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”

“I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?”