My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

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 interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.