I really fight for my privacy..

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a ….

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area..

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.

I garden a lot in LA, so fashion consists of boots, work pants and T-shirts, unless I'm going out..

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested..

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.

I already felt disengaged with my contemporaries..

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally..

As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice..

I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women..

My workout is my meditation..

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.

Hamlet is a little daunting..

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school..

I don't really think of myself as quirky; I have sort of an unusual sense of humor..

I'm pretty, for lack of a better word, happy-go-lucky. I take things very seriously, but I'm very aware of people around me. I like to be part of a g….