Well, thank God I have this face, and it's a believable face, and that also seems to be my acting style.

I'm in the public eye, so I have a responsibility as an actress to my generation. I think that's what acting's all about.

It seems to have taken me a long time to find my identity.

During the years I was growing up, I was trying very hard to be a regular person.

It's hard to be a long-distance mother.

I'm impulsive, spontaneous; I have a joy in my life today that doesn't quit.

I'm awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it's an important part of my life and if I can express it in any way, I will - including doing seminars.

My father was a farm boy who never learned to be holding and supportive.

My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.

My father was a very strong male figure to me as a child. He was very dashing, had a wonderful sense of humor and was romantically handsome in the Scott Fitzgerald genre.