I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.