I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I don't take characters home with me.

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.