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 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 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.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

I still have this unrealistic faith, that one day, my ship will come in. More people will discover, understand and buy my stuff.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.