"And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do."

"I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son."

"There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not."

"When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice."

"I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones."

"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."

"I think in life we want to challenge ourselves."

"So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that."

"You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better."

"I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me."

"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."

"I think of myself as a highly sexual creature."

"I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days."

"I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message."

"I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe."

"I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people."

"I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour."

"I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to."

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

"I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled."

"If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop."

"Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over."

"When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly."

"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."