You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?' ... Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness - your raging insecurity.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

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.