My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

Both my parents were born and raised in the county. My dad - his mother and his grandparents were here.

There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.