"Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change."

“There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.”

Source : "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

“You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.”

“A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question ... is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.”

“I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.”

“I've always been in a rebel.”

“You're miscarrying a baby first thing in the morning. Who wants to hear it? God bless them. It's a very strange life. I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.”

Source : "Andrea Riseborough: 'Acting is a very strange life'". Interview with Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2013.

“We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.”

“All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.”