I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could ac….

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

When you spend many hours a week working with the same people - I mean television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust ….

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient..

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connect….

I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead ….

I've never directed, but it must be humbling..

Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both i….

It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have abou….

I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather..

I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a cult….

In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups….

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the poi….

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to….

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal.

It's not the dress ... it's the way you see me..

In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside ….

I think that my looks through the years have served me well because I was never a great beauty and I was never cast as a great beauty. My looks were ….

Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to m….

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like t….