"I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must."

"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."

"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University."

"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever."

"I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor."

"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"

"I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies."

"See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise."

"I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy."

"But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people."

"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."

"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."

"It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job."

"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."

"I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director."

"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."

"I love writers. All of my best friends are writers."

"And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten."

"The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes."

"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."