For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

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.

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

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.