I love telling stories. When people interview me live I'm totally forthcoming about stories like that - as long as it's not going to be in print or recorded. It's just for whoever's in the audience. It's always been for me kind of fun and then everyone walks out of there, "She told this story about da da da" but nobody can prove it.

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

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.