I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

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

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.