One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

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.

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't.

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.