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

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.

I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

Don't be absent from your own life.

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