Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns; they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.
One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.
I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.
I think most actors like to be liked.
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.
I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.
At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.
Of course drugs were fun.
People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.
An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.
I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.
It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.
I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.
I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.
Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.
I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey.
Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.
I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.
I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.
