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

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

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

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

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

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

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.