Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

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 have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

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.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.