I am a person who goes out without a purse.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.