The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

In the long run, We Realize that life without one gender, would end up boring

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.

I think we've always been better live.

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.