You`ve got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

My husband thinks he`s compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

I guess if you`re lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio`s mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she`s looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

A successful marriage isn`t necessarily one that lasts until you`re dead. (Parade magazine, May 13, 2007)

[of her second marriage] What the hell was I thinking? Marry a rich guy? Was I crazy? I didn`t need that. I was already at the party. I didn`t need someone to get me through the door. How could I be so clueless about who I am and what I value? Did I actually think I was going to give up working? It`s important for me to work. (Parade magazine, May 13, 2007)

[Speaking in 1987] It`s difficult to be married outside the profession. A lawyer might not understand that going to bed with Gabriel Byrne for three days is work for me.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children`s sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.