I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.

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

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

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.