The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

Being is like pretending.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.