“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.~”

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.

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.

People don’t want to see me having sex. I’m the queen of the ‘kiss, foreplay, dissolve.’ And then the ‘Whoo! Good morning, tiger.

The only time I’ve ever gone against my instincts, I’ve regretted it. It was only really one time.

Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

It doesn’t matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.