We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. [...] The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.