My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

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.

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

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.