"I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather."
"I've never directed, but it must be humbling."
"The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none."
"I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way."
"I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient."
"I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal."
"More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation."
"I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat."
"I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features."
"I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story."
"It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it."
"Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends."
"I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me."
"I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in."
"There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it."
"I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private."
"I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies."
"My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you."
"Privacy is paradise."
"Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution."
"I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me."
"I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self."
"I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a kind of love affair with the city."
"Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it."
"It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, that's a plus for your feature film career and for your career in general. There are no walls anymore between the two."
