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

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.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

My father was very big on marriage.

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're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.