There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff.

You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work.

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'The Long Walk Home,' it was the girdle. Every time I'd put that girdle on, I'd feel my character wiggle to life.

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

I got an automatic breadmaker. It's the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it's no fail. I'm a modern homemaker.