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.

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

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.