My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.

There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it's sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.

When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.

My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.

When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.