» "I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro."

» "There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful."

» "There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it."

» "It never really dawned on me that, gee, I'm 45 and I'm taking off my clothes. For me it was a matter of living inside the character." -- On her nude scenes in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

» "All of us are broken - some of use more than others. It might be a nurturing, mother thing. I do think there is that, "Oh my God, you're hurting. I know what that feels like and I'd like to be there and support you in that."

» "That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. "

» "My husband lives in a fantasy world. It's really hard for him to be in the world, because if his head isn't in a script, I guess to write what he does, he has to sort of twist the world a little bit and live in a fantasy. And I think he doesn't live in reality - in my reality, let's put it that way. He's much more "Everything's fine fine fine and everything's good good good," and I'm like, "What, are you nuts? Everything's rotten and sucks."

» "Clint Eastwood was so wonderful ..."

» "I'm used to playing down the glamour in my movie roles. I think this is the first film that’s had a little glam where I get to put my hair up, put on eyelashes and wear gorgeous dresses. It’s also the first film role where I can put a little sexual energy in it."

» "You know what made it hard? It was emotionally draining."

» "You can go to those places once or twice a day. But when you have to do it over and over and over, it's just grueling."

» "I'm not going to say it was a vision, but it was this notion that I got that your spiritual life and growth in life is like a garden you plant."

» "I inspected eyeglasses for a year. I would take the lens out of it's tray, look at it, wash it off, and pass it on. It was just so boring."

» "This is a short lived business. I think while I have the time to make the money and work with the people I have the chance to work with then I have to take advantage of that while I can. Then you know what? Then that will be over and I'll go onto something else."

» "My age is not something I hide. I really don't. It's in every article, who cares. But it's not anything I necessarily talk about when I'm being hired on a film because we're neurotic. Women, in general, are neurotic; it's a horrible quality to have."

» ""When I was born--oh, I'm going to cry, but this is for you, Rosie--my dad left, and it was women in my life that were gay that raised me and that helped and nurtured me..."

» "I wanted to call my mom to say, 'Look, Mom, I'm going on national television to say thank you for all your friends,' because she was just pretty much abandoned, and a lot of her friends came and helped her to raise me and my sister. "And if it weren't for that, I don't know where we'd be."

» "I didn't want to be the beautiful girlfriend or the ingénue."

» "All of us are broken - some of use more than others. It might be a nurturing, mother thing. I do think there is that, "Oh my God, you're hurting. I know what that feels like and I'd like to be there and support you in that."

» When Russo and her leading men kiss, We're all nervous. We revert to shuffling around like teenagers. As the kiss continues, you grow up, but you enter into it like an adolescent." Her secret? Just go for it. Dive in!"

» People think, If I just had a mate, my life would be so wonderful. Well, being single has hardships and blessings, and so does marriage. I wouldn't say one is better than the other. A lot of my girlfriends who are dying to get married, I tell them, Take this time. Learn to love yourself first.

» Don't be a chatterbox: While filming In the Line of Fire, I was incredibly intimidated by Clint Eastwood. He doesn't feel the need to talk. He's exactly like he is in his movies. So I felt I needed to fill up the space and babble. Lesson: Sometimes it's better not to talk."

» In my family, we have a good news report every night before bed. I ask my daughter what the best part of her day was, then I tell her my good news. It might be that I was in the garden and a hummingbird flew in front of me. It's a way to focus on our blessings."