I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.