I never trusted good-looking boys.

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

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.

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 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.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

The only power you have is the word no.

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.