I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.