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

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.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

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

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

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.