I... had guys on the set who didn`t like me... they weren`t interested in the cold character.

Well, for one thing, I like being a supporting actress. I like to come and go in the film. The interesting characters are very few if you want to be the lead, and they depend on you being beautiful. Since I`m not interested in those parts, the pressure`s off, in a way. I`m not cast for my physicality. I find that playing so many characters in so many films is a way to be in the moment.

[On her harshest rejection]: "One director said I just wasn`t sexy. It was hard, really hard. I left town for two months with my tail between my legs. But you have to kind of go, okay, maybe I`m not their idea of [sexy], but hell, I can have sex!"

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don`t know what it`s like.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don`t have a lot of money.

I`m unqualified for anything else. I`m barely qualified for this.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

I know many great actors who have small heads.

My work environment has always been very safe and very warm, so I have the freedom to speak directly to my friend,s and vice-versa.

If you look at the parts... they are really great parts, and the writing is always great, and the people that I`ve been able to work with are amazing.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

I don`t think I`m very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

It`s important for me to connect with the script and to know after meeting the director if it`s a person I`m going to feel unguarded around.

Sometimes it just doesn`t translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

If you work in casting, it`s sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn`t true with any of the casting people I knew.

Luck favors the prepared.

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don`t look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

I just never fantasized about Mr. Rogers, but I like his whole vibe.

Well, the day I got nominated, I had jury duty, a D.U.I. case. The morning the nominations were announced, I reported to jury duty as scheduled. That was good; it gave me perspective. If you start feeling too important, it`s always good to go sit in a jury for a D.U.I. charge.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I`m not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

Insecurity is just something that`s there all the time. I`ve never been crippled by it.

I`ve worked with a lot of great directors.

I`m not a public figure at all. I don`t really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

The movies I`m in not a lot of people see, but it`s alright.