If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
You're just as good, and if you work harder, you can be better and you can be more than you think you can.
When you start searching for your name, you might be thrilled with what a lot of people say and it just takes one person. And it can hurt your feelings, but I have been aware of the fan bases and stuff like that and realize how deeply involved they are.
I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.
I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.
Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
I don't like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it's using the muscle that you use in loving, in that your heart feels open. Physically, you feel open. And so therefore your job is to enter, open, and listen. And see what happens.
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.