I am an ordinary person.

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.

You either learn to live with it or leave without it.

Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?

Real, but sometimes beautiful.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.