When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

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.

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.