Marriage is an exercise in torture.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

Our talk is right and the other person’s talk is wrong, however if a conflict occurs, then it is wrong.

Growing up in that house sucks so badly and when my brother leaves I break down and cry because I don't want him to leave, but I know that he has to have a life of his own

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

If your screen is wrong, your correctives are wrong

She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.

For those who are understood no need to explain