I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when Im contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.