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

My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange's body or someone else's legs? What a waste of time.

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.

All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.