Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

I was posing as a 9-year-old girl who was a blue-ribbon prizewinner; she rode on a Shetland pony, the small horse that was the appropriate size for her.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.