I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
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 have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
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 never took to Hollywood.
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
I'm not a New York snob.
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
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 begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
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.
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 older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
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.
