I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family.

American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really beautiful if we can keep doing that instead of just fluffing everything up and hiding again.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!