The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.
It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.
I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.
I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
To be too knowing is a downfall.
The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.
I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
History's a resource.
There's something grueling but very appealing about rough, to-the-bone material in a low budget context. There's less between you and the material. There are less people. There is less time. There's often less technology. You have to concentrate very intensely, and you jump in a little deeper because there's nothing in your way... but there are challenges.
Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.
With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
