I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.