I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

One of the advantages of being an older woman in films,is that you don't care as much about so many things. There are women in history throughout the world that need to be portrayed. Women don't stop being interesting at 20, they get more interesting and more fascinating and people are going to have to write about them. We're undeniable.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

I'm not very comfortable being an actorvist so to get to do something that I believe in is a much more comfortable way for me to be political.

It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents were abandoning us. It was a tremendously sad day and I'm sure I will never understand exactly all the reasons why that happened.

I'm afraid of flying.