Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.