I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

The only real failure is the failure to try.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.