Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

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.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

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.