It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny very verbal very clever very witty.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now and we don't know where the hell she is.

But based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

When I was growing up my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is) and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on freedom of speech but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.