I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

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 good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

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