Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.