"People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power."

"To play a bag woman is brave for any woman."

"You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from."

"I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up."

"Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper."

"I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children."

"Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed."

"People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening."

"The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature."

"My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays."

"One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath."

"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."

"When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!"

"I've been on shows that go for shock value."

"I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus."

"Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him."

"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."

"People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired."

"I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life."

"I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything."