Actress Quotes

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.

I'd like to be a giant enabler.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.