You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a stude….

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience..

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was….

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society..

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer..

I want to be defined by my own essence..

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a differen….

When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I sa….

I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that..

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stori….

I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that..

The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and ….

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want….

I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while..

I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of….

Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, h….

It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack N….

I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same area where he lives. The way he describe….

I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party..

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy..

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing….