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I feel it's easier to sit in the backseat and go, "Oh, yeah, let's go there." You're not worried about getting to the destination. But the guy or the woman who has to get you to the destination is worried about a lot of other things, so my job as an actor is to try as many things as possible, be as open as possible, listen, and keep my heart open.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.