I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

I can do five things at once. I'm tapping my foot, I'm opening my mouth and talking to you, and looking at the bulletin board.

I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.

I love the role of Ripley.

I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.

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

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.