I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.