"Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV again in something other than the girl or the mother role it was all, "Get up against the wall," or, "The skin underneath her fingernail would tell me that she," you know, forensic stuff. Oh, God gross. Now, they're hunting terrorists.

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.