I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'
Cynthia NixonEleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be - hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, "They don't think I'm pretty."
Cynthia NixonI understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.
Cynthia NixonNancy Reagan actually took some movies that she didn't want to take because they were [with Ronald Reagan] really strapped for cash.
Cynthia Nixon