I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

Love is like an ocean… You see just the beginning because there is no end.

We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.

Forgiveness is a gift we can only give to ourselves.

You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.

I have projects in life that I'm engaged in, I have things that stimulate me in my life, that make me happy. But more interesting for me is: I'm still trying to figure it out.

Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something I have to get used to. I'm blocking it out as much as I can.

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.