My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

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.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

I think everyone's journey through this crazy, weird, wild, wonderful area of work named acting is really their own. And if you're going for something that isn't yours, you're wasting time. You could be focused on your own work instead of thinking about somebody else.

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.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."