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I would love a robot butler.

I'd never imagined I'd become the ambassador of housewives.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.