I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries

I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

There's more to us than the moment we made a bad decision.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.