In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.