I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

I don't have a political bone in my body.