As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

I am convinced that we become what we do.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.