I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there’s something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?
I get a trickling few scripts that I’m lucky enough that some of them are great. I don’t get loads of scripts.
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
I like who I am now. Other people may not. I’m comfortable. I feel freer now. I don’t want growing older to matter to me.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It’s a really rich field. There isn’t as rich a field of material.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it’s a completely random process.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I’m extremely undisciplined person.
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can’t imagine eschewing one for the other.
I can’t stand most things that I see.
I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I’ve been really, really lucky. My career has been given to me by the people I’ve worked with. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I’m really grateful.
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I’ve seen him in most everything he’s done.
The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it’ll pay me back with interest. At least I’ll be interested, even if nobody else is.
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.
I thought, “Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart’s core?” And the answer as I’ve formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don’t think it really changes.
Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.
America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
You have to embrace getting older.
Interestingly, young people don’t come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.