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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Scripts [are] kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.