At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.

Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.