I need to go where people are serious about acting.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

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

People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?