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

My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

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

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