It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?

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.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.