I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.
I'm too old-school to tweet.
You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.
TV is a much more female-friendly environment.
Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.
What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.
In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No. )