My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

I'm kind of a recluse.

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.