When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattract­ive enough to be the dorky girl.

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.

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.