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.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.