When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle. I know how creative that life is, and how difficult it is to figure it out.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.