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

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.

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.

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.