I always wanted to do dramas. Ever since I was young, I wanted to be in a role where I could play a prostitute or a drug addict, because it's nice to be able to portray someone who is so far from you, which I love.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.

When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.

I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in.

My favourite performances are by actresses like Bette Davis in 'All About Eve' or Gena Rowlands in pretty much anything - performances that have nothing to do with age.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

An actress can only play a woman,I'm an actor I can play anything

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.