I had never met an actress or an actor when I thought that I might like to be one. I had never been around people in show business or from the theate….

I'm just as intrigued by acting as ever. It's an ongoing process. There's no arrival. There's no point at which you say "Oh, OK, done it, got it." It….

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice..

A lot of acting is working with your own psyche in order to allow yourself to be open and reveal yourself. But then of course there's a healthy part ….

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think, a good time. A….

Don't wait to have a baby! Do it now!.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With….

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss ….

We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic perso….

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even ta….

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy..

Movie is a near art form. It's showbiz and people want to make money. And generally people are financing things because they think it will make money….

Most of the people that I've worked with when shooting films that I really respect, there is a point which you do become obsessed in a good way. And ….

People always ask us women about how we balance our lives. Rarely do they ever ask men this but we are asked this and it makes a lot of sense - balan….

One of the things that I love when I go to a film or when I'm reading some book or whatever, is to be told a secret I thought only I knew and then so….

Of course, you can never watch something like somebody else watches something like you, but nonetheless, you have to try. So I think on camera you le….

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop worki….

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do..

In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it..

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another..