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

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.

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.

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