I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.