Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me