On-Screen Roles Quotes

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

I don't miss acting at all.

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

I've basically guest-starred on every show that you can imagine. I am pretty used to being the new kid in school.

At some point, when I was 14 or 15, the idea crossed my mind to become an actor... I hadn't been to the theater much... When I grew up, we had one TV channel, which was sufficient.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.

I would always worry that I was only going to play the girl next door or the cute girlfriend. But I've been really lucky that all my roles have been very intense and completely different kinds of characters.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be an actor.

I had never thought I would be an actor.

None of my on-screen roles have been outright negative. They have all been grey, and that is how it is in reality, too. None of us are nice and sweet 24/7.

I actually never acted on "Deadwood." I have meetings all the time where people look at my IMDb page and see that I played the part of "Accounting Clerk" on Deadwood. Actually, I was the accounting clerk for production of "Deadwood."

Both my parents are actors.

I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I'm perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.