If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you’re active in your community, there’s nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
There is sexism – I’m not denying its existence. But I’m saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, ‘Get out of my way.’
I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.
There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it’s challenging to be a woman and succeed.
Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming – all these are very clearly tied to energy.
It is, I think, harder for women. I haven’t quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven’t figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?
If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.
Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.
I never go about a new project as if I’m trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I’m excited by material I find challenging and – if it’s a comedy – exceptionally funny.
I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair.
Making a movie is a long, dull process. There’s a lot of waiting around.
Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.
Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
Even my great grand-mother did impressions.
Everybody seems to know me. It’s very strange.