I think because I`ve maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

I hope to just find more great roles.

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

I wish I could say I have this kind of big plan, but now, so much of it is what comes along the pike, and then, you just say, there`s something about that role that just tickles me or sort of feels right.

[Of her watching "Bettie Page" pornographic film loops to understand her character in The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)] I love the loops! I couldn`t take my eyes off of them. It was five minutes dedicated to the art of the shoe, and putting the shoe on -- but first the stocking. It was so geisha. There was something so presentational. Bettie was just lost in her own world, dancing around with this fringe bikini on, with this weird lamp on the side table.

I haven`t had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they`re not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn`t keep a straight face.

It`s not like I have a master plan or anything.

It`s hard to know really how it`s going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there`s a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

I never really have had, at its core, an issue with nudity in films except that I know when I think it`s exploitative and when I think it`s beautiful.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that`s what I did.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she`s a feminist but I don`t think she was ever trying to be.

Hopefully, I`ll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that`s how it will develop.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

I think it`s sort of disrespectful to the partner you`re having sex with to talk about it.