Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
I really like being a woman. . . . I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.
I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.
I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.
Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.