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.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

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

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.