All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

When one door closes, another window opens.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Green screen's not my favourite thing to do.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.

We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.

It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted.

In my opinion, you don't get to have privacy when you're only 16!

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me.

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak.

I have women friends who are significantly younger and older than me.

I love going to Scotland.

You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side.

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.

I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational.

I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.