Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

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.