We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

I'm all over the place.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.