I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".