My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.

Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.

When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.

There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it's sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.

My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.