I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

I get very, very, very irritable with people who complain about getting old, because I know a lot of people who would gladly trade places with us. I'm not saying it's easy, I'm not saying it doesn't hurt your feelings, I'm not saying it's not painful - and physically as well as mentally and spiritually - and it's frightening at times. However, people have really lost perspective, and it's a really bizarre topic of conversation that it's become a cultural peg in our world that aging is a bad thing. It's not logical to me.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."