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

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.

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

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.

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.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called Little Red Riding Hood.

Hell’s got IT?Yes, of course. Who do you think invented Candy Crush?

Why is the AMA for 'Obamacare'? If this is going to hurt doctors, why are they for 'Obamacare'?

All Hillary Clinton's done is talk to the African-Americans and to the Latinos, but they get the vote, and then they come back, they say, we'll see you in four years.

If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.