The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

We are the choices we have made.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.