People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

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.

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

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.