Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.
If you ever watch me at theatre rehearsals, you will know what a bad actress I am. I am bad... bad... bad... and then, by opening night, it all just falls into place.
The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.
Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing.
I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
You never feel like you're 100 percent at either one. I don't ever feel like I'm the best actress I can be or the best mother I can be.
I've been the best in the world, and I believe my self worth, it's more important to me than my net worth.
I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.
It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.
I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.
I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.
I'm often asked what it was like to have a famous mother. I always answer that I really don't know. I knew her first as my mother, and then as my best friend. Only after that did I understand that she was an actress, and with time that she was truly an exceptional actress.
My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.