Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

You have to play the logic of a character.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

I've always been creative, I think.

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity.

Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem

Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

Make America great again.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

Usually when Donald Trump wants to keep someone out of military service, he just fakes a doctor's note saying he has a foot injury. It worked fine for him during Vietnam.