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

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.

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.

We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.