When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

It’s completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I’d like to do a musical someday.

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait… It felt weird to me. But it’s interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.

I was told once that I didn’t play the Hollywood game, and that’s why I wasn’t a big star. What they meant when was that I don’t go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don’t like the script, they know it.

I don’t think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don’t want to be a part of a show where it’s mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can’t believe that I’ve fallen for it all these years!

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early ’90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

Women do feel like they’re in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

I don’t flirt and I don’t play the people that I’m meeting with.

I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can’t not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.

I’m contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I’ve been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I’m really tired of it. I’m continually uninspired by what’s being sent to me. Even by huge films that they’re doing there. They’re just awful.

The difference between working with a man and a woman… is immense.

I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with.

I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn’t take advantage of what was happening.

Harrison Ford… I love him. He’s a man’s man.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

I don’t want my body to look like a man’s. I just want to tone my body.

I love to dance. But I don’t like being up in front of tons of people. I didn’t have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn’t something I ever seriously considered.

When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

There is something at work that’s bigger than us. It’s about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don’t worry or agonize about the outcome.

It’s not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

I’ve always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don’t know what is going to happen. I’m in this and I don’t understand it. This is never going to sell. Who’s going to watch this thing?

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I’ve never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn’t surprise me in some way, I simply can’t commit to the project.

My mother’s been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It’s remarkable.

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction… my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

Jessica Lange in Frances… was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I’ve seen a woman do.