I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.

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.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.