You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.