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I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

Do you really have to be the ice-queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

Children reinvent your world for you.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.

It helps me chill out and focus.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.

I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

If you always have to be watching yourself and judging, I don't think you're as free.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

The thing that's bad about breasts is that you have to choose between having a mind and having breasts. It'd be nice if you could have both.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.

I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.

If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.

Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

I believe in using words, not fists.

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.

We've legalized marijuana recently. Medical marijuana, but the rest will come.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

How you spend your energy is ultimately what creates who you are.
(On Beauty: Susan Sarandon, Vogue, January 8, 2016)

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?