I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it's pretty nauseous-making. It always has been.

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.