The best relationships develop out of friendships.

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.