Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it.

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

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.