After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. |
Here was a way to actually do it with other people, instead all by yourself with a book, ... Here you can get together, read a play, memorize it and put it on stage. |
I don't know how you can clean someone else's toilet. I can barely touch my own. |
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be. |
I played his mother, so that was kind of fascinating, ... I met her, she had a small part in the movie, and he adores her, so I was really lucky. |
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. |
It was an excellent job, ... I like the idea of playing a 42-year-old woman -- actually, 41, I was 41 last year -- who was pregnant and has to face it. |