One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

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

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.