My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

Tightness takes more energy than the letting go.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?