I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything. |
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. |
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays. |
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. |
Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him. |
Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed. |
When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again. |
When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons! |
I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus. |
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature. |
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination. |
You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from. |
I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children. |
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. |
I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life. |
To play a bag woman is brave for any woman. |
You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone. |
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. |
People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired. |
I usually get recognized for Spaceballs. |