"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world."

"As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."

"Indifference is the essence of inhumanity"."

"I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."

"If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases."

"I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor."

"The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that."

"I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress."

"It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film."

"Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?"

"All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!"

"I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger."

"It's wonderful being the underdog."

"The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'"

"Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons."

"The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised."

"I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to."

"I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years."

"I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K."

"Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?"

"It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny."

"I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence."

"There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'"