“You don’t really have to dress a ton of actors. You don’t really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.”

I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don’t see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don’t want to play the same role twice.

To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don’t do publicity if I don’t like the film.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

When I was a young actress, I was called in just to do my part, and I didn’t have any say or weight as far as any decisions go. But today, having worked as a producer and also having lived a little, I feel like I’ve found my voice more. I’m sure that it has influenced me as an actor and it will continue to do so.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

Actors don’t act, we’re just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.