Quotes

I can't get to the point where my brain is mush and I can barely talk, because my son's life depends on my health.

Life is constantly changing.

I want everything that's possible that I've worked for to show up in my life and be mine.

When I stuff things down and avoid it or try to work too hard through something that needs to be addressed, that's when life slaps me in the face, and I get told. I got told to slow down.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

When life is going to present you with tons of problems - really hard ones, some less hard, some debilitating - it's what you do about them that matters.

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.

At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to lose. You have the last four years of your life to lose.

Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go.

It's fairly easy to know when you've succeeded because you're kind of hanging on for dear life. It's such an unstoppable juggernaut; you're trying to stay with your head above water because things are moving so fast.