I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.