“I don’t prefer much of film over stage… The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.”

“As a young actress I saw her in Opening Night (1977). She was so larger-than-life, yet her performances are so detailed- no color is left out. She’s ferocious, beautiful, elegant, compassionate, funny, sexy. A broad in the best sense of the word – that’s what I aspire to be.” – On Gena Rowlands

“I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it’s like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.”

“I definitely feel like I didn’t want to do that kind of thing when I was younger because I didn’t think that it was something a serious actress would do, in a way there is validity to that. It’s harder to be taken seriously when you’re younger, doing that but I’ve also come to a point of being able to handle the reaction to it – that probably would have been more difficult when I was younger. – On being nude in movies”

“You can’t really be old in L.A., it’s kind of like a crime.”

“Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It’s really good for your health.”

“It’s really physically hard! That pole work is crazy hard; to be really good on that pole and you have to be really strong. – On pole dancing”

“I’m not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don’t know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.”

“I cannot tell you how many times I’ve stood backstage or been about to start a film, ‘What am I doing? Am I crazy? This really hard and I don’t want to do this anymore.’ I love the actual acting, but the stuff around it can be hard.”