A horse is wonderful by definition.
Be happy in your body. It's the only one you've got, so you might as well like it.
I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that!
You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much seen every single one of her plays, and been in a lot of rehearsal rooms, so it felt very natural and easy. It was lovely to get an opportunity to do that professionally as well.
When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
The celebrity thing's completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether. I couldn't have kids in the situation I'm in now. But I could just do something else. That's probably what's going to happen. I made a decision very recently that I want a life instead.
You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.
Patriots don't let their nation default.
People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage,. . . It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.
The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.