I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.