People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

Once a Altman's film has been in a town, it kind of wrecks the town. It doesn't even matter what the film is because, suddenly, everybody's hip and stores start doubling prices or whatever.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.