Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.