I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.