Curtis: "My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do."

Curtis: "Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this."

Curtis: "I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."

Curtis: "I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring."

Curtis: "I'm a tidy, neat person. But I'm not a maniac."

Curtis: "I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful."

Curtis: "I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection."

Curtis: "The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of."

Curtis: "The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it."

Curtis: "My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved."

Curtis: "I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes."

Curtis: "I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board."

Curtis: "It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work."

Curtis: "The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult."

Curtis: "Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me."

Curtis: "I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves."

Curtis: "I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven."

Curtis: "I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy."

Curtis: "The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."

Curtis: "Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober."

Curtis: "Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society."

Curtis: "And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use."

Curtis: "I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are."

Curtis: "I guess I want very much to be recognized for my abilities, for the work I put in, and yet it's still always there - who my parents were. As much as I love my parents, if that was the last thing ever said about me - that I was their daughter - I would be disappointed that my contributions weren't strong enough on their own."

Curtis: "I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older."

Curtis: "If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do."

Curtis: "I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had."

Curtis: "I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."

Curtis: "I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be."

Curtis: "So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door."

Curtis: "I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life."