So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

I'm not a nice person.

I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.