You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.
Writing is essentially an internal process.
There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.
It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.
I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
You don't get to make Westerns every day.
A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.
I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.
I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.
My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.
Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.
Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.
The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.
