I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honoured to be that way for young actors.
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.
I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
The formula of happiness and success is just being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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