The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way - it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.