While it is challenging working with a kid, because they’re so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to...

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

It’s easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy’s in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that’s an easier role.

Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we’re trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I...

It’s not always thankless. Let’s face it – it’s not always thankless. I’ve gotten a lot of really great recognition and I’ve worked with amazing people.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

You know, I grew up with brothers so I’m used to being the only girl.

I optioned a book and we got the script written, and he wants to direct it. It’s a very dark movie so we’ll see if it gets made.

It’s not that I don’t see myself as hot and sexy. Don’t get me wrong. No, it’s not that.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I’m blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It’s that I’m 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually… I feel it inside myself. I don’t feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I’m trying to say.

But when you’re in something together, it’s very hard to be objective and you’re very subjective.

I think it’s important to do great work.

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and...

I think it’s important to do smaller films because I think that’s where a lot of new things are happening.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don’t want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That’s not really interesting for me.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character’s persona and being. And that just couldn’t...

I can’t get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

I think we have a very real marriage.

Ultimately, you know, I’m a grown-up, I’ve been in this business a long time. I’ve got kids. I’ve got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring...

I do it because I want to exercise people’s compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

I was very young when we got married and I don’t know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow...

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together – the high highs and the low lows.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that’s okay.

I’ve always been able to let stuff go when I’m done with work.

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

I don’t know if you’re married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you’re both just in your own thing, but you’re there...

It makes it all worth it when you are doing a great part and you are really living it, making it real, and then it lives for people on the screen.