I hope to just find more great roles.

I think because I’ve maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

I think it’s sort of disrespectful to the partner you’re having sex with to talk about it.

It’s hard to know really how it’s going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there’s a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

I just didn’t expect it to have the impact it did, and that was where I was naive. At the same time I’m happy ultimately for the experience because I’m stronger.

It’s not like I have a master plan or anything.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

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The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with...

Hopefully, I’ll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that’s how it will develop.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So...

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God – her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to...