I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

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!

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.