My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.