Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them
I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl
People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I guess it gives the characters some kind of power. . . At least I play women who are strong enough to take the power into their own hands! And kill themselves! So many women in films just shoot themselves in the head anyway, because they're not really there for any reason.
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
There isn't any more that I can teach him.