I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'