When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

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.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.