I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.