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The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

When I decided to become an actress, I think I let some people down. It was a kind of rebellion.

It used to be such a stigma, making that transition to various entertainment medias. There are a couple of actresses who have cut it quite well, and I consider myself one.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.