The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.

No matter what you do always strive to be the best”.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.

God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?