I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.