Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

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

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.