Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.