You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.