What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

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

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.