I don’t like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I’ve had children who are in school.
I’m a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
I get a trickling few scripts that I’m lucky enough that some of them are great. I don’t get loads of scripts.
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I’ve seen him in most everything he’s done.
There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
I’m curious about other people. That’s the essence of my acting. I’m interested in what it would be like to be you.
The work will stand, no matter what.
I always feel like I can’t do it, that I can’t go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
I think I’m not a natural performer; I think I’m an actor.
It’s amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.
America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She’s a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
I want to feel my life while I’m in it.
I didn’t really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn’t afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there’s that nice reverb, and the water’s drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there’s that nice reverb, and the water’s drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
I’m really interested in the collaborative thing. It’s what makes it scary because you never know what it’s going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you’re completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It’s like this mutual delusion.
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