Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

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

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.