I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.