We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

By 40, all women are amazing.

When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was all good things, and then it started to turn. I very quickly learned, "This isn't good, this isn't helping me." But it was a very important exercise for me in terms of really understanding that one's sense of self is internal. I have had an extreme opportunity to learn that lesson, and I think it's been such a blessed fortune.

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.