In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore.

I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.

I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ..."It's so surprising to me.