What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.