It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.

When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses.