When Nancy Reagan was presented with people who she really felt like weren't going to judge her, there was such a floodgate of affection and warmth and physical affection that, most of the time, was kept at bay because, "Oh, someone's going to say something." I think that because of so many things that happened to her in her childhood, but also in the press.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.

There are a lot of myths about gay people.

I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.