I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular, even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater, and when I first went into movies, I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.

Love makes no sense at all. But it's the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.

When I hear that somebody’s difficult, I think, Oh, I can’t wait to work with them.

It is very difficult for girls. They’re told to look one way, but to act another way.

With the hugely talented women I’ve worked with or observed, it’s not a question about temperament or ego; it’s a question about getting it right. If they’ve got a reputation for being difficult it’s usually because they just don’t suffer fools.

I’ve been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

I don’t have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I’ve never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you’re constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.

As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be – there was actually one day when we never went to bed.

When you’re playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you’re tired, it’s terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature – I’ve never met an animal lover who didn’t have some kind of connection to the natural world.