"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art."

"No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me."

"My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain."

"I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30."

"I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat."

"Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important."

"My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office."

"I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work."