It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

We are the choices we have made.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

I am an ordinary person.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.