It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

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

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.

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

I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

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.