“Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.”

If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.

There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.

It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.

Be brave enough to live creatively.

Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.

We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.

They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.

And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want.

Nine times out of ten, I’m trying to meet someone else’s expectations, whether it’s the director or the writer or the animator

You have to make that judgement yourself, and that’s partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.

And we’re always talking to the directors about that. It’s a big challenge to find people that can do it.

You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do.

On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene