It`s kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren`t looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

It`s not fun to see myself in the mirror.

Hollywood Breakthrough Director of the Year Award.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It`s just about like the most completely humbling experience that I`ve ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can`t stand up to those principles when you`re raising a child, forget it.

Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

Len said, `I`ll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,`

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective,

[Regarding getting drug shots before each performance of the 1968 rock musical, "Hair"] At the time it was astonishing to have a job. It was odd. Before the show opened we got a shot by a doctor Bishop. A vitamin shot, only it was not vitamins. It was like methamphetamines. You were flying. A lot of people got addicted.

Being back again with Steve and Marty was great and Steve is especially good in this one.

I just have to keep going back to the core and think that we`re all afraid of it and when we`re afraid of it, you run to something much easier, something that looks like candy.

I`m limited, so, I kind of know where I fit as an actress. I kind of get it now, finally, after all of these years of trying to be a dramatic actress. I kind of think that`d I`d like to continue dealing with these things in a funny, lighter vein, but also truthful and honest.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I think about dying every single day. I`ve lost lots of friends, and they die in the most bizarre ways. It`s like, "Tthat can`t possibly be! How could that have happened?" And all I can think is, "That could have been me."

I build a wall around myself. I`m hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

Of course I recognized myself in the roles [Woody Allen] wrote. I mean, in Annie Hall (1977) particularly. I was this sort of novice who had lots of feelings but didn`t know how to express herself, and I see that in Annie. I think Woody used a kind of essential quality that he found in me at that time, and I`m glad he did because it worked really well in the movie.

I find the same thing sexy in a man now as I always have: humor. I love it when they are funny. It`s to die for.

[on her nude scene in Something`s Gotta Give (2003)] At this point, does it really matter? Nobody is looking at me the way I once imagined people would look at me, like with deviant thoughts. I think they just go, "Huh. There it is. Intact."