I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.