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

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.

So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

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

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.