I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal.

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.