Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
There are no explanations, there are no answers.
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.
I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.
It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.
The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
