It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

There's a different experience when you're reading a book rather than when you're seeing something on screen. When you're seeing a movie or TV show, it's a three-dimensional experience you're in the middle of, but when you're reading something, you're suppling the reality with your imagination.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.