The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

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

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.