I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has to do with who they were at that time and what their personalities were like and what their strengths and weaknesses were.

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has to do with who they were at that time and what their personalities were like and what their strengths and weaknesses were.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.