So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

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

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.