“A fever is an expression of inner rage.”

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

I wouldn’t have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I’m so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It’s just stupendous.

You can be true to the character all you want but you’ve got to go home with yourself.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody’s heart, because who doesn’t like to laugh?

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don’t think your high-school algebra teacher should be one of them.

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I’ve had in my past worked for so long is because when you’re making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don’t even see the person.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks? I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.

It’s funny when people say, ‘I don’t think Julia likes me.’ Honey, if I don’t like you, you’re going to know about it.

In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.

We’ve all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

Predictions can sound really good if you’re good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I’m not really good at that, so I don’t want to.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.