You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

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

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

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

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move forward in every level of society and it's so frightening. This is all a big reaction to the fact that there are more women in medical school than there are men now and I am pretty sure it will be the same soon in law schools and in business.