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Don't be absent from your own life.
Yes, and you should question your government.
There are no explanations, there are no answers.
I have always followed the most passionate course.
I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.
All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.
It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.
There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.
If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.
When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.
If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.
It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.
To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.