Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.