It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

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.

...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.

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

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.

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.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.