One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late '60s, early '70s and I was a dissident like everybody else I guess. Now I follow it but there's nothing that really grabs me. The most fascinating thing to me right now is China.

I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.