I just take every day is a miracle and I’m really glad that I’m still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I’m sick of me a little bit.
That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.
Guard your good mood.
Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time.
I always feel like I can’t do it, that I can’t go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
I don’t like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I’ve had children who are in school.
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
There are some days when I, myself, think I’m overrated.
You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.
So it’s not a thing that’s a struggle. It’s work, but it’s not a struggle. It’s fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn’t normally think was the most important word in the sentence.
Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
It’s hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.
I don’t really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.
If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can’t put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I’m not sure that I’m that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.