I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.
I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.
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 very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
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 think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'
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