I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.
Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.
I am that lucky woman who has been living my life all my life. Anything can happen now. Anything. And it will be only whip cream and delightful things. Even in the conflict and the hardship.
More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.
Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.
You have to let the costume inform you.
I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part.
My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.
An actor's life is fairly lonely.
I live in the country, and I live a fairly natural, holistic life. Sometimes I get put up in hotels where they use chemical sprays to clean things, or there are chemicals used that I stay away from.
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.
There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.
I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.
The climate informs the character.
I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.
People often expect me to be something other than what I am.
I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.
I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.
The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
