From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

Working on location is ideal because you enter the character and the story. Shooting at a studio near home, there's a certain split. But on location, you forget the real world, and when you come back to reality, just going to the market can be traumatic.

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.