So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them.

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.

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 think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

I am selfish. I am brave.

I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.