It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange's body or someone else's legs? What a waste of time.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

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