“We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human ...” — Lili Taylor Quote

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

To let those complexities, dichotomies, contradictions, and the multitudes that we are as human beings exist is essential to me. That's just how I work. Otherwise, it makes no sense. Or I think it's boring, or it doesn't seem real.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings as a secondary fact.

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.