I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.