Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.