We know how much our careers mean to us,

All we discussed (with Caro) was what is the truth of this woman and the life that she’s led. All of a sudden, when you get the answer to the emotional side, the physical elements...

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

It’s just not my thing.

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have...

My feet slipped from underneath me and I landed on my neck with my body straight.

If I don’t like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that’s when I think I’ll stop.

I couldn’t change how people thought of me, … I had to believe someone would come along and believe in me enough to give me a chance, and that’s what happened.

I had just arrived in Hollywood and didn’t have a manager or agent. A very well known director contacted my modeling agency and said he had a small part for me in a big action...

The thing that’s great about this story is it’s not just about the first class action sexual harassment case, … It’s really also about this community and about people just trying to survive.

If you were a single mom, there’s no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It’s about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a...

really related to that kind of strength in women.

After Monster, when I started telling people about this story, some people said ‘Oh, you’re doing another ugly film’.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I’m happy for people who want to get married. It’s not my thing.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don’t look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don’t think of them as like Charlize Theron...

My character is fictional, but she is based on all the women who fought the sexual harassment case, and everything you see in the film actually happened.

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards –...

And the process is very physical, which is something I always wanted to do, since I came from a ballet background and I really like telling stories with my body. That was the challenge… ....

But my natural inkling isn’t really to go do those kinds of films, so I really wanted to go experience that and see what is interesting in that genre and what to do with it...

I think the most important thing that I got from them was when I got to be with their families and with their children,

It’s so hush hush that they have sworn everyone to absolute secrecy and haven’t revealed the exact date or location yet.

We don’t go through life with it all being smooth sailing. … We all understand situations where you know it’s swim or drown. It’s a choice you have to make, and sometimes we surprise ourselves,...

Like one of those snow-globe things, it’s this fragile little ball of perfection, and I think people have forgotten what actors do. After a while, I was like, `Well, what did you want me to...

People said, `Oh, you’re doing another ugly movie,’ … I said, `No, I’m doing another film about real people, and it’s not about ugly vs. anything.’ It’s about searching for that constant truth, and I...

I guess there are very few actors that I’ve worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you’ll have that chance and, if we didn’t do Italian Job together, there...

It took me awhile, to be honest, because this was so extremely foreign to me. I had never done anything in the genre and I didn’t feel like an expert. So, it took me a...

I had big dreams when I came here, but this is an incredibly amazing gift, … If somebody had told me then that this would have happened one day, I would have laughed in their...

In many ways, my mother is my audience, so I do listen to her advice.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I’m at a place in...

I’m extremely happy in my relationship,

There’s only so much you can do with the material you’re given, … A lot of films are very male-oriented, but this is a male-dominated industry. Let’s not lie. I don’t care what character I...

Then they started telling me stories about how this abuse didn’t just affect them. It affected their children when they went to school, when they went to go play hockey. It wasn’t just something that...

[The actress is going for a change of pace next. She’s about to guest-star on five episodes of Fox’s sitcom Arrested Development .] I am a huge fan of the show, and I’m very picky...

And didn’t just happen in Minnesota, … Anita Hill wasn’t an isolated case. There are cases everywhere. And I don’t think it’s stopped.

Head in the Clouds.

When you’re playing with aspects of sexuality, certain things have to be hidden. That’s what my mother always used to tell me. I wanted to stay as true as possible to the original character, but...

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive...

We’d have dinner with them. We’d bowl, we went snowmobiling and ice fishing. And they started trusting us. They really wanted us to tell the story right.

I’d love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

This year has proven to make those kind of films you don’t need to make them feel like medicine, you can make them powerful and still entertaining.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

Hell, I would be terrified if Hollywood showed up in my community and was going to pick a scab, … The other thing was: ‘How are the men going to be portrayed?’ You have to...

McDormand is an incredible gift to the cinema, … There’s something so organic about her character, straight from the gut.

I was told to go to a director’s house at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, so I went, thinking maybe this is the kind of thing you do. He opened the door wearing pajamas....

I am a huge fan of the show, and I’m very picky with my comedy. I don’t get to do comedy very often, and when they asked me, I jumped at the opportunity. I was...

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I can’t change the way I look nor can I sit back and let that rule my life when I know in my heart that I’m a real girl,

I feel really lucky to have the body I have; I love it!

I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.