I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

I like things that are civilized.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.