Patricia Clarkson

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.