However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.