All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.
And I've been married, I have a daughter.
And John Maybury, the director, is a really great friend of mine through the years so the opportunity to work with him is really tempting as well, because we're friends.
And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.
But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.
Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look.
I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.
I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.
I don't care what people's myths are about me.
I just did two films. I did Homegrown, with Billy Bob Thornton, and a movie called Cold Around the Heart for Oliver Stone.
I just think that acting and dressing up and putting make-up on is something that attracts more women than men.
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.
I look at myself as someone who comes to work, punches the clock and does my craft.
I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
I make no apologies about what I do.
I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.
I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?
I think we're exploring this idea of the end of the American Empire, according to Hunter S. Thompson, and a lot of other things.
I'm really into the details of the movie's moments and the character's hair and what's in my handbag and what's in the backseat of my car.
I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.
If it's commercial I look to see if it's something people will want to go and see.
If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.
It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.
It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.
Most movie stars don't change their look at all.
My daughter Shane is 11 and she's still innocentI haven't shown her the dark film roles yet.
My idols are all older.
My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.
Rather than sit around, I'll work.
So when I see some great talent, male, female, old, young, writing, acting, I feel like I'm in the right business.
That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.
The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.
The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.
The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.
Usually a writer has a particular point of view in a film, and you find that all the characters come in and out of this one tone and rhythm.
Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.
Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.
When people have told my fortune or whatever I've always kind of not really listened.
Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.
You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.
You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.
You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
Kelly is best friends with Sheryl Crow.
Kelly atttended the Guthrie Theater Drama School, at the world renowned Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Kelly's husband is Mitch Glazer. They married in 1992.
Kelly had a daughter in 1986.
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