I Don't Think Male Characters Are As

When I Got Pregnant, I Told [susan Sarandon ]. She Said, "all Right. I'm Gonna Tell You The Thing To Do When You're Giving Birth: Push Like You're Trying To Win A Prize, Like You Want To Be The Best Patient He's Ever Had. He's Going To Give You A Prize For Winning That." So I Did. [the Doctor] Said, "you Are Probably The Best Pusher I've Had As A Patient."

I Don't Know How In The Twenty-first Century We Can Possibly Justify Not Showing Girls Things That They Can Aspire To, And At The Same Time, How Can We Possibly Be Showing Boys This Narrow Vision Of What Women Are And What They Can Be.

This Is Really Funny, But We Did A Study Of The Occupations Of Female Characters On Tv, And There Are So Many Female Forensic Scientists On Tv Because Of All The Csi Shows And Bones And Whatever. I Don't Have To Lobby Anybody To Add More Female Forensic Scientists As Role Models. There's Plenty.in Real Life, The People Going Into That Field Now Are Something Like Two-thirds Women.

Everything I Do, I Want To Take It To The Farthest Possible Degree. I Can't Just Do Something The Plain Way. I Don't Cook A Bowl Of Pasta; It Has To Be Puff Pastry Swans.

I Do Like The Process Of Producing. Later In My Career, Like When I Had The Tv Show, I Was A Producer And I've Been On A Few Things.