Jill Clayburgh

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.