I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income.

9/11 just seemed to come out of the blue. And there were people asking questions, but then there were no answers. At some point, it just turned into, "We've got to do what we've got to do." And I think those are the moments when you grow, when you get the opportunity to try to figure out, exactly as you said, what price are you paying, and if it's worth that price.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.