You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.