My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.