Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.

I'm real adamant that, when we have family time scheduled, that we stick to it.

The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.