If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

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.

My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

I love Goodfellows and I love Nick Palleggi, but no, it's The Godfather, 1 and 2.