To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.

I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?

Don't be absent from your own life.

...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.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

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.