Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.