The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek and all that stuff.

I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.

People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.

For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.