And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

No need to try to explain to others what's in your heart. Some things are just between you and God.

The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

We must pray for more prayer for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you - thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.