My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

My first vocation was dance.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

When you're doing movies, you're traveling all over the world and you really can't be home.

Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

The first cut is the deepest.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have on film. This feels closer to who I am than stuff I've played on stage, or, like, Olive Kitteridge.