And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.