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" I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster. "

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" 'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over. "

" I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life. "

" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

" Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something. "

" There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain. "

" Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set. "

" The unknown makes people uncomfortable. "

" Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying. "

" This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know. "

" After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit. "

" I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that. "

" My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me. "

" 'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next. "

" I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV. "

" I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking. "

" There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. "

" Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act. "

" I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather. "

" I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. "

" I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it. "

" I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one. "

" It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody. "

" I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm. "

" With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders. "

" Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting. "

" I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting. "

" Privacy is paradise. "

" I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator - we were the only two people in there - and she's been one of my very dearest friends since. "

" With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there. "

" Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character. "