Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

You can't always be a leading lady.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

Growing up takes longer than you think.