Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.