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.

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

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 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.

I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.

Despair swallows up cowardice.