You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that's true to who I am and what I really wanted.

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

I've not had a mean life.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.