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

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.

I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.