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I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.