A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
I certainly didn't have a nanny.
I still know I have an awful lot to learn, and I hope I'm put in whatever situation it is that's gonna help me learn it, or that I'll get to watch really good people do what they do.
Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.
People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.
Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.
I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.
I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.
The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.
I love working closely with people.
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
It was so soon after I'd had my son and I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good... I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.
I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
