When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.