I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.
I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.
I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.
I just never fantasized about Mr. Rogers, but I like his whole vibe.
I know many great actors who have small heads.
I never ice skated before... I learned enough to skate for the 20 yards I needed to.
I read the script about five times, out loud, and I still had no idea what it meant.
I studied with Susan Peretz and Roy London, an amazing teacher who died of AIDS.
I think people are always looking for a good comedy.
I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.
I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.
I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.
I've worked with a lot of great directors.
If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.
If you look at the parts... they are really great parts, and the writing is always great, and the people that I've been able to work with are amazing.
If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.
Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.
It occurred to me that it would be interesting to be a man for a short amount of time, just to see if there actually is a difference in the way that we think and feel, like people are always talking about. I don't really know that there's a difference, because I've only been a woman.
It takes a while for me to actually want to do something. I don't find a lot of things that I really want to do.
It's important for me to connect with the script and to know after meeting the director if it's a person I'm going to feel unguarded around.
Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.
My work environment has always been very safe and very warm, so I have the freedom to speak directly to my friend,s and vice-versa.
Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.
Steven Soderbergh's movie. That was insane... I mean, newsflash! Steven Soderbergh's great!
The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.
The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.
The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me.
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
When you make-believe, you're somebody else. As an adult, I think people have a fascination with acting, as well. A lot of people I know would love to act, and it's all in a very kind of innocent way. It's so much fun to do different things. To experience new things all the time.
You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend... She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.
Catherine made a cameo in Charlie Kauffman's Adaptation in 2002.
Catherine was provided with a strict set of rules by director Steven Soderbergh on the set of Full Frontal, to make sure that the budget did not exceed $2 million to make. The rules stipulated: all actors were to provide their own wardrobe, maintain their own hair and makeup, and drive themselves to and from the set every day.
Catherine shielded a surprised Jennifer Aniston from a reporter on The Today Show. The pair appeared to talk about a movie that they were filming, Friends With Money, when the questions started to turn personal on Aniston. The reporter was warned before taping, that all personal topics were 'off limits', yet when the interview started, the reporter asked about Jennifer's wedding plans with actor Vince Vaughn. Catherine stepped in, and told the reporter to 'back off' and stick to the topic at hand.
Catherine landed her first starring role in Johnny Suede, alongside then-unknown Brad Pitt.
Catherine met actor Dermot Mulroney while they were filming Survival Quest in 1989, the two dated then married in 1990.
Catherine was nominated for an Academy Award, in 1999, in the category of Best Supporting Actress, for her role in the motion picture Being John Malkovich.
Catherine is good friends with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt.
Catherine is the third of five children.
Catherine attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Hialeah, Florida. She began to rebel in her high school years, and was expelled in 11th grade. She reconsidered her priorities, and returned to school to graduate with grades that were high enough to be accepted into college. She graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts in 1983.
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