When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.