It was an excellent job, ... I like the idea of playing a 42-year-old woman -- actually, 41, I was 41 last year -- who was pregnant and has to face it.

216

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

170

I played his mother, so that was kind of fascinating, ... I met her, she had a small part in the movie, and he adores her, so I was really lucky.

136

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

117

I don't know how you can clean someone else's toilet. I can barely touch my own.

108

Here was a way to actually do it with other people, instead all by yourself with a book, ... Here you can get together, read a play, memorize it and put it on stage.

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