I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.