Catherine Keener

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

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 know many great actors who have small heads.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.