I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'
Cynthia NixonNot to bash Los Angeles, but there is always a feeling in LA of where your stock is. Are you the top of the heap at the moment or do you have the blockbuster, did you get cast in that thing?
Cynthia NixonI understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that they were coming from. When you experience such pain early on, some people really interface with that pain and try and unpack it, and some people just take it and squelch it down and try and be as successful as they can. And, you know, encourage everybody, "Don't dwell on the negative! Come on, buck up!"
Cynthia NixonMy mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.
Cynthia NixonIt is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.
Cynthia NixonI am very annoyed about this issue. Why canโt it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems weโre just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I donโt think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didnโt realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men Iโve been out with.
Cynthia Nixon