Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

We have to band together, but the thing in America is that people are terrified of losing their jobs... Maybe California needs to secede. The only thing that'll make any difference is the money... Tax dollars and losing that amount of money. It's one of the most economically powerful states, isn't it? That's where it hurts.