When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

You have a lot more to give, the older you get. And you want to give it. I mean, some people want to give it. But there is a desire to pass down, to have a hand in the past and a hand in the future. There's a continuum.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.