We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.

I'm painfully middle class.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.