If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.
Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world?
I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway.
I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well.
As an actress, you have to be very naive.
I'm dying for people to let me be funny!
OK, so I'm a working mom that also gets to kiss George Clooney. That's a little bit of a perk of the job.
I've been around the block.
Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge.
I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.
How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening?
I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.
I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.
I don't believe in saying no.
My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.
If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.
I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed.
I have to say, it seems to be the older I get, the better the work gets. When has that been true?
Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on stage that are basically the same as TV or film.
There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.
I think every actor has those performances they've seen, the person who made them realize that's what they wanted to do.
