I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

I've borne these two kids into a particularly strange circumstance. They are going to have to fend off a lot and protect themselves from a lot of projections and prejudice about who they are, coming from the family that they come from.

I think so many people give us ideas of what we are. I think as women especially, because we're sensitive by nature, we're more vulnerable, we absorb other people's ideas about what we're supposed to think or who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to act.

I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.