Biographie

Her grandmother had her uncle when she was 14 years old, her mom at 16, then disappeared without a trace. Her mother grew up in the care of nuns in an institute, abandoned at two.

She keeps her Academy Award in the bathroom.

Lived with Tim Robbins from 1988 to 2009.

Landed her first Hollywood role when her then-husband, Chris Sarandon, took her along on one of his auditions.

She has twice used Freedom of Information laws to access her FBI file, and claims it reveals her phone conversations are routinely monitored by the US government.

I choose projects I can talk about for days because now you do publicity for as long as it took you to shoot the movie.

I feel I've always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

Sexuality... is something that develops and becomes stronger and stronger the older you get... If you can continue to say yes to life and to maintain a certain generosity of spirit, you become more and more of who you are.

I think the only reason I remain an actor is that you can never quite get it right. So there is a challenge to it.

If I were 22 and trying to build a career, I don't know who'd be watching the kids as happily as I do. It takes so much to get me to break out of domestic paradise. There's hardly anything that interests me as much as my family.