The only power you have is the word no.

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.

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.

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.

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.