I Wouldn't Want To Go Back To

I Like People To Be Surprised By The Turn Of Events. I Don't Want Things Just To Be Pat And Formulaic. If There's Some Sort Of Internal Combustion In The Character Or A Desire To Change The Way Things Are Going, That Makes For Conflict, Which Is The Essence Of Drama.

In My Industry, Everybody Wants To Know Everything About You, And Its Just Dumb. I Think The Only Way Of Maintaining Some Of That Mystique Is By Not Giving Away Too Much About Yourself. It Has Served Me Well So Far. I Never Want To Feel Up For Grabs.

It's The Idea That When You Say 'actress', People Think Of An Airy, Floaty, No-brain Person, Which Of Course You Can't Be If You Are An Actor. It Is An Unfortunate Word, Which Is Why, For A Time, I Hung On To 'actor', Because It Just Seemed More Workmanlike, You Know, Like You Say 'woman Doctor' Not 'doctoress'.

I Carry Music In My Head, So I Don't Need More. It Drives Me Nuts That, In Hotels Or On Boats, People Seem To Think You Need Music 24 Hours A Day.

If You Only Took On Roles That Had The Same Qualities, Then I Suppose It Might Make A Critic Feel Better, If He Can See Some Kind Of Bedrock. Perhaps That's The Old Definition Of A Star, Someone Who's Always Going To Come Up With The Same Goods. But It Intimates Limitation To Me And I Don't Want To Think Of The Job Like That.