I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

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.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

That's what we're all doing: paving the way, finding the roles that have the complication instead of the one that's always got it together or the dedicated housewife or the wild one who smokes cigarettes and sleeps with anybody.

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 like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.