It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.

I'm not a stunning woman.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.