At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

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.

There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.

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

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

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