Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

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

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies.

My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange's body or someone else's legs? What a waste of time.

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