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Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old character women. But that's what's always happened. Work out how you can fit into it, and make that work. There are never going to be millions of parts for older actresses because there never were.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.