"But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them."

"Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me."

"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it."

"I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be."

"Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member."

"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."

"I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome."

"Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments."