You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.

Actors are very generous.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.