Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

Big movies are fun and it`s great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.

Acting is very immediate.

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.