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" The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all. "

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" I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work. "

" Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it. "

" I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress. "

" I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it. "

" Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person. "

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

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

" Privacy is paradise. "

" Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role. "

" Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness. "

" Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution. "

" Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have. "

" 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 reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self. "

" As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know. "

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

" 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 love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me. "

" I love wearing wigs because they're instantly transformational. "

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

" Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director. "

" Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people. "

" I've never directed, but it must be humbling. "

" Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage. "

" Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person. "

" The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors. "

" As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing. "

" I had such total, unequivocal, enthusiastic encouragement to be an actress. Looking back, I really find that to be a total mystery. Don't ask me why. My father was just in love with the idea that I would be an actress. "

" '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. "