I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.
My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
Music is what our feelings sound like.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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