I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

I do think my mother was a bit overprotective, not in any sordid way, but just normally. She certainly might say to me, "You know, Laura, I don't have a good feeling about that guy. I don't know if I want you to go out with him."

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

There is so much in the world to care about.