They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.

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

Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

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