When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

We need women friends, women who challenge us... I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

To do life right, you have to feel like you're growing up until the day you die. The thing I'm proudest of is that I have stayed curious. I have every intention, when I'm on my deathbed, of saying, "Oh, my God - I get it!"

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.