I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.