The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

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