I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.

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

Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.