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.

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.