When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

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 have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.