Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.