I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

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

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

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