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.

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 never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

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.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.