I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange's body or someone else's legs? What a waste of time.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.