 The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great. |
| To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible. |
| There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can. |
| For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. Topics: Mother |
| There are no explanations, there are no answers. |
| When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work. |
| One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story. |
| The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. |
| To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before. |
| I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character. |
| In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. |
| I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off. |
| I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. |
| Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. |
