It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

I'm not a New York snob.

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.