Patricia Arquette

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

I love small weird art movies, and I love free mass entertainment.

We never thought 'Boyhood' was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn't know if anyone would see it or appreciate it.

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.

When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.

Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.

Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.

I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.

I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.

I feel like I'm getting the best parts of my career in my 50s.

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

In Hollywood, nobody knows how much everyone is making. It's all very hidden, and it's hard to change those things.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

I know I've been really blessed in my life.

This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

There really is a lot of pressure on actresses to look a strange and unrealistic way. You're not supposed to age. You're supposed to be perpetually incredibly attractive because that's the way the movie world is.

I don't think I would have had much of a career if I didn't have my son.

I've crafted a really weird career for myself.

We all have our own little thing, I think.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

I find that men are far more vain than women.