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I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do with you, and you're not quite as dependent on maintaining leading-lady beauty.

I'm primarily a character actress.

There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles.

I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.