The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.
Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.
It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.
What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.
I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.
If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.
Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'
It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.
I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.
I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.
To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.
Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?
I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.
I've tried to take roles with great demands.
My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.
When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.
There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it's sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.
My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.
