With acting, the stark reality for women is that it's nearly impossible to get older in an elegant fashion as an actress. Either you're fighting your age, or you're having to own it in a way that feels inelegant, or you're Meryl Streep and you're an angel from God.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

Timing is everything with relationships.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

Sometimes I look at where we've come to, and how much technology and advancement there is, and I can't believe that we're not this perfectly balanced, beautiful, peaceful society. I'm shocked that we're so deeply polarized, that there are people who want progress and they feel guilty for wanting progress, because it somehow seems un-American, because being American means staying ignorant and going backward.

There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.