I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.