I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I don't have a political bone in my body.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else

There are people who kill, and people who get killed.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

There's power when you call on God, you ask Him, and you invite Him into your life. God will be in your life as much as you allow Him to.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.

Know that to begin is often better than to think.

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.