My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

If you want to live your life to the fullest you must start believing in yourself today.

This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.

False in one thing false in everything

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.