If You're An Actor, You

Acting Is Not About Being Famous, It's About Exploring The Human Soul.

I Fall In Love With All The People I'm Working With, Women, Directors, Everybody. As Actors, That's Actually One Of The Real Pleasures Of The Work. You Have This Weird Opportunity To Get Unnaturally Close To People Very Quickly.

Right Now, I Love The Fact That I Have So Many Opportunities, But I Know This Privileged Position Cannot Last. That Doesn't Mean That I'll Stop Working. I Picture Myself As An Old Actress Doing Cameos In Films With People Saying: "isn't That That Bening Woman?"

We All Perform Our Lives In A Way. And The Actor Is A Perfect Metaphor To Get At That Theme Of "how Do We Find Our Authentic Selves?" And That We All - Whether We're Actors Or Not - Perform Ourselves. As A Way Of Searching. As A Way Of Fumbling Around And Trying To Say, Is This My Voice? Is This Who I Am?

It Used To Be The One Or The Other, Right? You Were The 'bad Girl' Or The 'good Girl' Or The 'bad Mother' Or The 'good Mother,' 'the Horrible Businesswoman Who Eschewed Her Children' Or 'the Earth Mother Who Was Happy To Be At Home Baking Pies,' All Of That Stuff That We Sort Of Knew Was A Lie.